what does the queue look like before/when/after it appears to stop w orking?
is the queue large then it stops is there a large ammount of "not processed" messages in Q or does this stay zero as the Q rises (long shot - what sort of disks does your Q sit on) ells.. On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 22:42, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > Hi. I have a problem with qmail-ldap on FreeBSD. > Basically I think qmail-lspawn is somehow losing control of > its spawned qmail-locals. The symptoms are: > > 1. After some time running, the system would stop making local > deliveries. Everything gets queued, but no deliveries are > made. > > 2. If I try to bring qmail-send down (svc -d /service/qmail-send) > it will "want down" but stay there. Until I manually kill > qmail-lspawn. Then it goes down (assuming there are no qmail-remote > processes running). > > 3. In the logs I see a lot of lines that say > > 2002-04-24 15:37:57.716559500 status: local 7/120 remote 0/120 > > but there are no qmail-local processes running! (ps ax | grep qmail-local) > > I guess that somehow qmail-lspawn is loosing track of the qmail-local > processes it has spawned. > > Where should I look for a solution to this problem? I've even compiled > a debug version of qmail (with -g) and can attach a gdb to the process > while running. However, I don't know much about the internals of qmail > so I don't have a clue about what to look for. > > I'm running qmail-1.03 + qmail-ldap-1.03-2001101a. I'm also mounting > the home directories of the users from another machine via NFS. The > queues are local. > > The Operating System is > FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE as of Wed Apr 10 11:14:16 CST 2002 > > Thanks, > > -Oscar > > -- > pgp fingerprint: BC64 2E7A CAEF 39E1 9544 80CA F7D5 784D FB46 16C1
