Re: Jamming up with mutex_lock

[Joe Maimon]

Andrew Daviel wrote:

> Thanks for the reply; I'm in a bit over my head, usually I stick to just 
> building packages and writing Perl scripts
>
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Joe Maimon wrote:
>
> > The other threads continue to operate.
> >
> > You then probably run into a ulimit condition.
>
>
> AFAIK there is no ulimit set, unless it's hidden somewhere.

There is usualy a default.
> > Try running this on a recent Debian instead.
>
>
> Not feasible. RHEL (actually Scientific Linux) is our site standard, and 
> while I could try something different on a non-production system it 
> would doubtless work just fine because it wouldn't get the traffic.
> I might be able to try a newer sendmail.
>
> > Perhaps you could show the patch?
>
>
> http://andrew.triumf.ca/email/spamass-milter.patch.jun18

getpwnam() is probably not threadsafe.

check its man page.