> From: Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:49:02 -0400 (EDT) > > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Chris Garrigues wrote: > > >> From: Chris Garrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:27:42 -0500 > ... > >> Any idea what's going on here? It requires a -9 to kill the processes. > ... > > and then it hangs forever and requires a -9. > > Are you quite sure of that? What happens if you use a TERM or QUIT signal? > Have you attached strace (or whatever syscall tracing tool is appropriate > for your platform)?
I just confirmed it. If I strace I just see that it's hanging on "read(0, ".
Since I hadn't diagnosed what was triggering it until just now, I didn't know
how to provide a test case. Now that I do, I'll try to get a real strace.
> > Am I doing the wrong thing, is this a bug, or is there something odd about
> > my
> > system?
>
> Last time I looked the qpsmtpd timeout alarm only applied while parsing
> SMTP or while receiving messages, but not while plugins were executing. I
> haven't seen any discussion about possible fixes for that (but I haven't
> checked that it hasn't been fixed). That could explain qpsmtpd waiting
> forever, but wouldn't explain faulure to terminate on TERM and QUIT
> signals.
Note that it's no longer in my plugin at this point.
Chris
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