[Mimedefang] Server crashes
Alan Madill
amadill at hwy16.com
Mon Sep 6 00:58:31 EDT 2004
Late reply.
The system had so many files in the /var/spool/mqueue directory
that "rm -f /var/spool/mqueue/*" would fail. (find worked) Sendmail
was leaving 6 month old files there.
I was convinced it was a hardware problem. I even set up a MRTG
page to watch the load average etc.
http://mrtg.hwy16.com/sysindex.html
The load average page at week 34 is where I cleaned the queue
out.
Once the files were deleted the system runs fine. I now run
tmpwatch with a 7 day timeout on the queue directory.
It was a pathologically-overloaded server.
> 51000 sounds huge to me for a mail queue. You definitely need to setup a
> slow-mail-queue and figure out why it's growing so large. Also 1GB sounds
> pretty low for what seems to be a VERY busy server.
>
> I documented the way I implemented DFS' recommendation's here
> http://www.pccc.com/downloads/sendmail/current-8.12.X/untarred/contrib/slowqueue/
>
> Regards,
> KAM
>
> > Aug 12 01:01:38 setup sendmail[31135]: grew WorkList for
> > /var/spool/mqueue to 51000
> >
> > It died here. Is that an overly large value for the worklist?
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