Queue control?

[Doc Schneider]

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G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
> Some unspeakable person flooded Hotmail with spam that looked like it
> came from me overnight, and I'm struggling under the onslaught of error
> messages. Hotmail is pumping the messages in, and as long as the load
> average is under 12 the system is accepting them, but for the most part
> they're just piling up and not being delivered to the local user.
> 
> Earlier this afternoon there were so many files in mqueue.in that I
> couldn't run ls to see how bad it was. I renamed the directory and
> created a new one, and not it has over 12,000 files in it, which must
> mean there are over 6,000 more messages waiting to be processed.
> 
> I don't really want to read them all, but I do want to get them
> processed so I can read the valid mail that is certainly hidden in there.
> 
> I tried bumping the Max children from the default up to 20 to see if
> that would force it to start delivering the mail, but that when my load
> average hit 16 I stopped MailScanner. (I did "service MailScanner stop"
> at a load average of just under 16, it didn't actually stop until the
> load average had hit 25.) Obviously that wasn't the right approach, so
> now I've set it down to 3 children which is keeping the memory use and
> load average within reason, but it still isn't delivering any mail.
> 
> Is there something I can do to force the system to devote at least some
> resources to working through the queue instead of just piling it higher?
> 
> Van
> 
> 

service MailScanner stop
service MailScanner startout (this will stop all incoming mail and will
just process mail being held in mqueue.in)

HTH

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