On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:00:14AM +0100, Santiago Romero wrote:
> I have a strange problem monitoring the "pickup" process: we have a
> monitoring system that, sometimes, warns us with "pickup process not in
> memory"
What is the meaning of this message?
> Does the "wake up" restart the process itself?
No, why should it? All the postfix processes are reused for a long time.
> Is it safe to raise those 60 seconds to a more higher value, such as 600
> or so?
No, at least not if you use the sendmail command.
> Am I right with the "synchronization" hypotesis or could be something
> different?
Find out what the message means.
What I would suspect: the check wants to warn if the memory of a process
gets swapped out. On a modern operation system such a metric is
unusable.
Bastian
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