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Daniel X Pape (dpape@imlab) wrote:
: I looked at a ps -e listing of the current processes...

: and there were at least 25 sendmail processes running.

  Try to use the mailq command to check if there are any mail items that are
waiting for delivery. If that is the case, it might indicate a sendmail which
is not properly configured, a wrong address or a connectivity problem. Anyway,
they should go away after a few minutes and start again after some time.

: What could cause sendmail to be run more than once? I thought that
: the only place that sendmail was invoked was by init on startup.

 If I am recalling correctly, there is a sendmail process for each outgoing
mail item.

: I've rebooted the machine a few times, and this doesn't seem to help.
: Killing all but one of the processes doesn't work either.

 Every time you reboot the machine, sendmail finds the defered mail and spawns
itself again. See the man-page for sendmail for more details.

: OH-- also when running osview.... there are alway around 60-70 graphics
: interrupts every second, and about 250-300 system interrupts a second.
: EVEN when the machine is just sitting there with only one user!!

 That doesn't seem like a high number to me.

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: 	Problems... Problems...



: Dan Pape
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-- Yaron.