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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!news.cic.net!locust.cic.net!pauls From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: POPPER - Out of resources Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Date: 24 Oct 1995 14:19:56 GMT Organization: CICNet, Inc. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <46ismd$cvr@news.cic.net> References: <46ipd7$kjk@alterdial.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.cic.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:21357 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1277 In article <46ipd7$kjk@alterdial.UU.NET>, Tom Pantazi <tom@jax-inter.net> wrote: >I am using Qualcomm's popper on a BSDi system with 32 meg of ram and >over a gig of disk free, yet I am getting messages that say popper is >out of resources. When this happens I cannot access any kind of shell >nor can I access the pop3 server. I can still access the DNS server >though. Any ideas? You have a serious system problem of some sort, but the message from popper is a symptom, not a cause. The fact that you can't even fork a shell on the box is a good indication that it's either very screwed up (with large runaway processes consuming memory or flooding of the file/process tables) or just too busy. >Does anyone know of a better popper? No, the one you have is good and stable. >How about a >good place for tech support for a popper? comp.mail.misc is where to go for help with POP servers. But in your case comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc would probably be a better choice since you have bigger problems. Or get a BSDI support contract. If you have trouble diagnosing problems like this, I think you'd probably find a support contract a very good investment. In any event, comp.mail.sendmail is probably not the right place for your posting (I assume this since you never mentioned sendmail in your posting...) -- Paul Southworth pauls@cic.net