Len:
Is there any additional way to recognize this killer msgs? I mean, do they
have a specific format in common? Who generates them? IMail?
At 14:42 12/03/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>This could be the "killer msg" pb where a badly formatted msg is
>picked up by successive instances of the SMTP client process. Each
>instance dies in memory, eventually no or very little mail
>sent. Move (not copy) your /spool directory to
>/spool/damnsoftware. Then you the res kit KILL to remove the zombies
>if you're patient, or reboot if you're impatient. Now the bad msg
>will be out of reach and your mail server is stable and sending again.
>
>Then copy back to /spool groups of msgs, until the bad msg is in
>/spool again. Just isolate it and kill it.
>
>Len
>
>>I'm having a problem with iMail creating many instances of
>>SMTP32.exe and then not closing them...ever. The processes then
>>sit there using 100% CPU usage until i reboot the server at which
>>point they almost immediatly ALL start up again.
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