Thanks, we have sut down the monitoring service yesterday already [one of the first things we did].
Best regards .Henrik Ballou Internet Services AB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mailadmin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:24 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP clogs up all the CPU and stops responding to new request > If it starts up again try turning off the Imail monitor and see if it > doesn't return to normal. I had this problem every 3 days for a couple of > months until I figured it out. I think there is a glitch somewhere in the > monitor in version 7. I never had this problem for 5 years until I upgraded > to version 7. > > David Daniels > System Administrator > Starfish Internet Service > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Henrik Lengstedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:55 AM > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP clogs up all the CPU and stops responding to > new request > > > > Hello Len > > > > Thanks for all the good suggestions, we�ve tried almost everything. The > > scariest thing is that the server now works like it used to, and we > haven�t > > done anything?! > > > > We installed some patches for DoS and maybe that worked. > > > > Thanks for the quick response. > > > > Best regards > > > > .Henrik > > > > B.I.S > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:45 PM > > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP clogs up all the CPU and stops responding > to > > new request > > > > > > > > >This morning suddenly all the SMTP-processes clogs up all the CPU on the > > >server. We don�t run any AV-check on the server. > > >We have tried to remove all the files from the spool directory but the > > >problems still occurs on new, incoming mail. > > > > hmm, that was a good move and would have been my first suggestion, some > > poisoned msg was zombie-ing all the SMTP processes that tried to send it. > > perhaps it was the RIGHT move, but some sender is repeatedly sending the > > same bad msg that keeps getting stuck in the queue? inspect the log > files. > > > > re-boot the machine. > > > > what's in the log files? > > > > I doubt if it will help (I've NEVER seen anybody say debug logging helped > > them find the problem), but you might just try turning on smtp debug > > logging for a little while. > > > > check DNS > > > > can you telnet from Imail machine to a remote MX host port 25? > > > > somebody screwed up the firewall? > > > > do a recursive dir on the mailbox tree, looking for huge .mbx files. > > > > anything recently installed? > > > > can you virus scan the disk quickly? > > > > >We�re running on this particular server Imail 5.09 [I know it�s an old > one, > > >but it has worked like a charm until now...]. > > > > It was a great and well-loved, long-serving version for us. > > > > Len > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://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/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://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/ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://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/ > To Unsubscribe: http://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/
