Hello tveryone. last four months, i have a very strange problem with qmail. every one/two week i look at server this situation: -------------------------------ps auxw--extract root 8093 0.0 0.1 1056 280 ? S Jul24 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ratel.ru /home/vpop mail/bin/vchkpw /var/qm root 8094 0.0 0.3 1728 896 ? S Jul24 0:00 /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail -pop3d Maildir root 8097 0.0 0.1 1056 280 ? S Jul24 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ratel.ru /home/vpop mail/bin/vchkpw /var/qm root 8098 0.0 0.3 1728 896 ? S Jul24 0:00 /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail -pop3d Maildir root 8102 0.0 0.1 1056 280 ? S Jul24 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ratel.ru /home/vpop mail/bin/vchkpw /var/qm root 8103 0.0 0.1 1056 280 ? S Jul24 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ratel.ru /home/vpop mail/bin/vchkpw /var/qm root 8104 0.0 0.3 1728 896 ? S Jul24 0:00 /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail -pop3d Maildir root 8105 0.0 0.3 1728 896 ? S Jul24 0:00 /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail -pop3d Maildir ----------------------------------------------- i.e. lot of this process. (great than in list, about 20-30 pair). in this state, server did not answer on the ping, and all services do not work propertly (timeout). ps auxw snap, got via crontab script. after 5/10 minits, system going in normal mode, and number of qmail process return to normal.. anybody has this bug? or plz, help, how i can diagnostic source of problem. qmail-pop3 log, does not contain any error message. -- Best regards, vlad mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]