[Mimedefang] Mimedefang processes are blocking

[David F. Skoll]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Dave Close wrote:

>   26534 ?  S  0:03 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
>    6158 ?  D  0:02 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
>    6265 ?  D  0:01 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
>    6266 ?  D  0:02 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
>    6326 ?  D  0:01 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
>    6327 ?  D  0:01 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
>    6334 ?  D  0:01 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
>    6446 ?  D  0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
>    6476 ?  D  0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
>    6477 ?  D  0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server

It's hard to know why this is happening.  Try using the embedded Perl
interpreter -- perhaps your machine is running out of memory and swapping.
It could also be a hardware problem.  Our main server would periodically
lock up with load averages in the hundreds.  It turned out to be a flaky
disk that would sometimes take orders of magnitude longer than usual to
perform I/O.

Regards,

David.