[Mimedefang] BIG problems with mimedefang

[Gary Funck]

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> F. Skoll
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:03 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] BIG problems with mimedefang
> 
> 
> Gary Funck wrote:
> 
> > Lisa Casey wrote:
> 
> >> 11859 defang 10 0 30572 20M 1852 D 6.3 4.0 0:10 mimedefang.pl
> >> 11657 defang 10 0 30172 9252 1820 D 3.0 1.8 0:07 mimedefang.pl
> >> 11652 defang 9 0 29184 8400 1832 D 2.9 1.6 0:07 mimedefang.pl
> 
> > Try running strace on one of those busy slaves to see what
> > sort of system calls it is making.
> 
> They're all in "D" state -- waiting for disk I/O.
> 
> I bet /var/spool/MIMEDefang is not on a ramdisk.
> 

Might be a good guess, but why did this suddenly start becoming
a problem?  Maybe 'strace' (combined with info. from 'lsof')
would offers some insight into which files are being accessed?
Any other ways to debug running Perl processes?  Can the
mimedefang "master" somehow start the slaves so they can
later be debugged, or is there a related technique?