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From: tom@jax-inter.net (Tom Pantazi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: POPPER - Out of resources
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 18:03:13 GMT
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pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) wrote:

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>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.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

>>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.

I kinda doubted sendmail would be where I'd look for popper info but I
checked mail.misc and saw nothing.  Thanks though I guess the popper
is not the problem.
>
>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.

I'll give them a call.

>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...)
>
See above.

Tom Pantazi - Jax Internet
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