Late reply. The system had so many files in the /var/spool/mqueue directory that "rm -f /var/spool/mqueue/*" would fail. (find worked) Sendmail was leaving 6 month old files there.
I was convinced it was a hardware problem. I even set up a MRTG page to watch the load average etc. http://mrtg.hwy16.com/sysindex.html The load average page at week 34 is where I cleaned the queue out. Once the files were deleted the system runs fine. I now run tmpwatch with a 7 day timeout on the queue directory. It was a pathologically-overloaded server. > 51000 sounds huge to me for a mail queue. You definitely need to setup a > slow-mail-queue and figure out why it's growing so large. Also 1GB sounds > pretty low for what seems to be a VERY busy server. > > I documented the way I implemented DFS' recommendation's here > http://www.pccc.com/downloads/sendmail/current-8.12.X/untarred/contrib/slowqueue/ > > Regards, > KAM > > > Aug 12 01:01:38 setup sendmail[31135]: grew WorkList for > > /var/spool/mqueue to 51000 > > > > It died here. Is that an overly large value for the worklist? -- Alan Madill - Aspen House Systems 250 567-4200 _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
