On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:01:26AM -0600, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:49:26AM -0600, Noel Jones wrote:
> > >-- begin snip --
> > >Feb 9 20:31:59 gw1.machlink.com amavis[11299]: (11299-03) (!!)
> > >TROUBLE in check_mail: mime_decode-1 FAILED: MIME::Parser: can't
> > >close: No space left on device at /usr/share/perl5/MIME/Parser.pm line
> > >834.
> > >
> > >-- end snip --
> >
> > To get back going, you will need to stop amavisd-new and clean out
> > the tmpfs. You can save those files elsewhere for later analysis, or
>
> Yes, I did this Saturday morning. Clearing out all of the tmpfs files
> in /var/amavis/tmp got Amavisd-New working again.
>
>
> > Is the snip above the earliest TROUBLE message amavisd-new logs? If
> > so, move that particular mail message out of the way (postsuper -h
> > QUEUEID) and see if mail then processes normally. Then you can
> > analyze that message to see why amavisd-new choked on it. Maybe it
> > has a big archive that filled up the tmpfs.
>
> Unfortunately, I simply deleted everything in /var/amavis/tmp rather
> than move it out of the way. The log snippet above wasn't the first
> trouble message, but it appears to be the second. What is peculiar is
> that /var/amavis/tmp usually only has 7 tmp files in it (one for each
> running amavis server). However, on Saturday morning, there were
> THOUSANDS. Therefore I'm inclined to believe that the problem wasn't
> simply one message.
It can happen with the same message being retried until it completely
fills up the system. It can also happen that there's a highly
compressed message ("zip bomb") which fills up the tmpfs, and then
everything else fails to uncompress.
Unfortunately if the initial problematic message is no longer
available, it's hard to narrow it down.
-- Clifton
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