On 2001.07.17 12:47 Mark Douglas wrote:
I'm having some problems with my qmail server. It seems to be taking an
abnormally large amount of time to do queue processing. A recent mailing
list send of 250k e-mail's to the server had it stuck in queue processing
with iowait at 80-100% the entire time, for over 36 hours. I assume this
is
not a normal timeframe for processing that amount of e-mail.
The setup is as follows:
Sun Netra t1 - 450mhz ultrasparcII processor
1024MB of memory, 1.5GB of swap
18GB SCSI disk.
Solaris 8
qmail 1.03 with DNS and big-concurrency patch
If any other information is pertinent, please let me know and I'll
provide
it. Any insight into what the problem could be would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
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recent mailing list send of 250k e-mail's to the server had it stuck in
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I would check to see if qmail-send has a defunct process.. You will need to
restart it or restart qmail altogether and make sure there are no stray
proceses that may interfere. I've had multiple instances where the queue
becomes abnormally large because qmail-send is defunct.. It should reload
and you will see preprocessed mails grow until it spits everything out.
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Jake Roersma
Network Engineer
Triton Technologies Inc.
(800)-837-4253/364-8761