[Users] Exim 4 crashes kernel on Debian Etch 64bit

Vasily Tarasov vtaras at openvz.org
Mon Jul 2 10:23:20 EDT 2007


Yes, Jim, 028stab035 kernel is the most recent available (prebuild)
OpenVZ kernel.

Vasily

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 10:19 -0400, Jim Archer wrote:
> Hi Vasily and thanks very much.
> 
> I didn't realize there was a kernel package on systs.org, I have been 
> manually downloading the packages and installing them with dpkg.  Which 
> package do I want?  I see on your site that there is a note dated June 18th 
> announcing an update of 028stab035, which is 2.6.18.  Is that it?
> 
> 
> --On Monday, July 02, 2007 5:46 PM +0400 Vasily Tarasov <vtaras at openvz.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> > This is a known issue and it is fixed already in fresh kernels. However
> > there are no fresh OpenVZ prebuild kernels in Debian archive at the
> > moment (Thorsten and Ola are working on it now), but you can use the
> > package from debian.systs.org.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Vasily.
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 18:31 -0400, Jim Archer wrote:
> >> Hi All...
> >>
> >> I'm running OpenVZ on a Debian Etch 64bit machine, with this prebuilt
> >> kernel:
> >>
> >> actual:~# uname -a
> >> Linux actual.xxxxxxxx.com 2.6.18-openvz-12-1etch1-amd64 #1 SMP Fri May 4
> >> 23:37:24 MSD 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >>
> >>
> >> One of the VPSs is dedicated as a mail server, which is running Exim4,
> >> Spamd, clamd, freshclam and sshd.  Every few weeks, for no apparent
> >> reason,  the VPS exceeds its kmemsize and Exim will behave strangely.
> >> What's  disturbing, though, is that restarting the VPS does not solve
> >> the problem  and, in fact, often causes the entire machine to be
> >> unstable.  The only way  out of this is a reboot.
> >>
> >> I wish I had more information to offer, but I'm not sure what to look
> >> for.  Can anyone assist?  I'm happy to run some tests if it will help.
> >>
> >> Thanks very much.
> >>
> >>
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