[Rack] Noisebridge-discuss mail server dead?

Ben Kochie ben at nerp.net
Tue Mar 19 21:58:46 UTC 2013


I made this nice tool to examine the cgroup use:

/usr/local/sbin/get-cgroup-memory-use.sh

     memory            max          limit       cgroup
-------------------------------------------------------------
      22528 KiB      26284 KiB      65536 KiB   bind9
       1480 KiB      16384 KiB      32768 KiB   clamsmtp
      15640 KiB     184980 KiB     262144 KiB   posfix
     204052 KiB     461428 KiB     524288 KiB   mysql
     120508 KiB     131072 KiB     131072 KiB   mailman
     193216 KiB     320976 KiB     393216 KiB   clamav-daemon
     224424 KiB     786432 KiB     786432 KiB   apache2
=============================================================
     730888 KiB          0 KiB         -1 KiB   Default

As you can see, the clamsmtp cgroup hit 16MB and died, but is now 
32MB.  I'm guessing it leaks.

-ben

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Ben Kochie wrote:

> It looks like my memory limit on clamsmtpd was a bit low (16MB)
>
> Mar 19 20:58:16 m2 kernel: [5761136.017754] clamsmtpd invoked oom-killer: 
> gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0
> Mar 19 20:58:16 m2 kernel: [5761136.017760] clamsmtpd cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
> Mar 19 20:58:16 m2 kernel: [5761136.017880] memory: usage 16384kB, limit 
> 16384kB, failcnt 220
> Mar 19 20:58:16 m2 kernel: [5761136.017883] memory+swap: usage 16384kB, limit 
> 9007199254740991kB, failcnt 0
>
> I've doubled the memory limit for clamsmtpd to 32MB.
>
> Andy, please do not enable swap, it just makes things worse.  All of the 
> services are memory isolated now, so if there is an OOM, it's due to 
> reservation limits on a per cgroup basis.
>
> -ben
>
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Andy Isaacson wrote:
>
>> The mail system broke due to OOM errors.  I restarted the daemons and
>> flushed the queue.
>> 
>> -andy
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:00:32AM -0700, Mitch Altman wrote:
>>> Hi Andy,
>>> Are you someone who can check the status of the Noisebridge email server? 
>>> It seems to be a bit quiet lately.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mitch.
>>> 
>>> ----------------
>>>> From: john_re at fastmail.us
>>>> To: noisebridge-discuss-owner at lists.noisebridge.net; danny at spesh.com; 
>>>> liz at bookmaniac.org
>>>> CC: maltman23 at hotmail.com; jim at systemateka.com
>>>> Subject: Noisebridge-discuss mail server dead?
>>>> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:11:33 -0700
>>>> 
>>>> I sent it mail yesterday , still not through yet,
>>>> & no other mail from nb either.
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-March/date.html
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