Re: [IMail Forum] tmp files in spool directory

Martin Schaible Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:26:52 -0700

Hi,

Yes, this is true. The queue manager is also a memory eater.

I will collect the data of the monitoring and publish the data at the end of the week.

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Am Montag, 24. April 2006 um 19:59 schrieben Sie:

>	both but I'm a bit more interested in the memory leak at this point. If you do not restart those services does the smtp service keep sucking up memory? Bill Martin Schaible wrote:

Hi Matrosity,

Do you mean the tmp file thing or the memory leak?

I realized, that a program alias leaves a tmp file.

I discovered that the tmp file will be created at the time the batch was called. So it's not a problem to kill the file.

Regarding the "memory leak": We're monitoring the amount of memory smtp service and queue manager is using.

This is a good indication for the "stress level" the mail server is running.

Sometimes the smtp service crashes for no reason. After restarting both services, the mail server looks afterwards more healthier.

It's also important to know, that the smtp service and the queue manager must be treated as "twins".

If one service is suffering from something, sooner or later the other one will be sick too. This reminds me really to the twin kids from a friend of mine ;-)

This is my reason to restart both services periodically, usually every 6 hours.

btw, i'm talking about version 8.22. I know that the queue manager is much more robust in version 2006.x

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Am Montag, 24. April 2006 um 19:10 schrieben Sie:

so you ARE having this problem as well and y our solution is to restart smtp daily?

Martin Schaible wrote:

Hi, To avoid spreading memory leaks and other funny things, we're restarting snmp and queue-Manager a few times per day, usually after updating the anti spam files. The same batch deletes also the tmp-files. It's right, the tmp files are created by a program alias. If your're calling a batch via the program alias, this batch can also delete his own tmp file. This works pretty good. ============================================ Am Montag, 24. April 2006 um 18:16 schrieben

It is not Imail's job to deal with the .tmp file for a program alias, it is for the program to deal with.

Please search the Imail KB for program alias which clearly explains that it is up to the program to delete or move or what ever the .tmp file.

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-----Original Message----- From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Imail_Forum-[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stefan Paege Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 12:10 AM To[email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] tmp files in spool directory Hi, another small problem with ICS2006.3 I just checked my spool directory and found lots of temporary files. All files follow the naming scheme tmp***.tmp where *** is a three digit hex number. All files are 2KB in size. Checking the content of the files I found that all are valid e-mails that were sent to an alias of type "Program". In my case it is a MailSniffer update announcement that comes in several times a day. The mails are received correctly and trigger the related CMD file so my MailSniffer updates do work. But IMail leaves such a spool file every time. Just a small glitch? -- Elektronik-Labor Carls GmbH & Co. KG Stefan Paege Fon: +49 5973 9497-23 Fax: +49 597http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive:http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ:http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/