mqueue.in

[Kevin Miller]

Thanks.  I took a look at my mailscanner-mrtg webpage, and noticed the CPU
usage at 100%.  Stopped and restarted MS, still topped out, and the file
pairs that had mates (d & q) were still there.  Coming from the Microsoft
camp, the universal cure all is a reboot every now and again so I did.
Presto - all the current files were shlepped on through leaving 30 or so
files hanging out at the "singles bar".  Most are pretty old, all are
orphans, i.e., either no q or no d match.  Guess I'll deep-6 them.  Not sure
why they got left.

CPU utilization is around 15% average, and the mail's flowing...

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Administrator, Mail
Administrator
155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Bonivart [mailto:peter at UCGBOOK.COM]
>Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 2:10 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: mqueue.in
>
>
>The default for Sendmail is to retry delivery for 5 days so I never
>remove a file less than that. The few times I get orphaned files it's
>df-files, not qf. The df-files can't be delivered without the
>qf (header
>file) so it's safe to delete. It could come from a dirty shutdown of
>Sendmail processes or the system for example. This link has
>more info on
>the queue files:
>
>http://people.freenet.de/slgig/op_en/appendix_b.html
>
>You could try "/usr/lib/sendmail -q -v" to see how delivery goes.
>
>/Peter Bonivart
>
>--Unix lovers do it in the Sun
>
>Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.23-11,
>SpamAssassin 2.60 + DCC 1.2.9, ClamAV 20030829
>
>Kevin Miller wrote:
>> I just upgraded spamassassin to 2.60, which seemed to go
>fine, but when I
>> restarted MailScanner, I did a 'tail -f mail' to make sure
>things were
>> flowing.  I noticed it said it found 48 messages waiting.
>Checked mqueue,
>> nothing odd there, but looking at mqueue.in there were a
>number of messages
>> pending.  A dozen and a half or so were from today, others
>going back some
>> time.  For some entries both a q[number] and d[number]
>exist.  Others don't
>> have a compliment, some orphaned q[numbers], some orphaned
>d[numbers].
>>
>> I suspect I'll just have to dump the old orphans - not sure
>what to do w/the
>> current pairs.  Gues I could wait a few hours and see if
>they get moved out
>> by themselves.  I restarted MailScanner to see if it would
>move them, but it
>> didn't.
>>
>> Any clues?
>>
>>
>> ...Kevin
>> -------------------
>> Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
>> CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Administrator, Mail
>> Administrator
>> 155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
>> Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500
>>
>