Crash protection

[Julian Field]

On 4/3/09 09:29, David Lee wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, David Lee wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> Anyway, we have it in service, and I'll keep monitoring it.
>
>
> Something looking not quite right overnight (RPM 4.75.6-1).
>
> The system is handling a fair bit of mail, but not under any real 
> stress, and the inbound queue usually has a few entries (occasionally 
> empty; occasionally exceeding 20).  Doing about 25,000 msgs/day.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> [root at mailrelay5 ~]# date; MailScanner --processing=0
> Wed Mar  4 09:09:49 GMT 2009
> Currently being processed:
>
> Number of messages: 11
> Tries   Message Last Tried
> =====   ======= ==========
> 1       n2499fG4028919  Wed Mar  4 09:15:02 2009
> 1       n2499h9K028926  Wed Mar  4 09:14:21 2009
> 1       n2499g7W028925  Wed Mar  4 09:13:43 2009
> 1       n2460pEw028445  Wed Mar  4 06:05:35 2009
> 1       n2460mQf028411  Wed Mar  4 06:03:05 2009
> 1       n2410rkc021019  Wed Mar  4 01:06:54 2009
> 1       n2410ru4021020  Wed Mar  4 01:04:56 2009
> 1       n23M0osK026902  Tue Mar  3 22:05:33 2009
> 1       n23L0oBo004261  Tue Mar  3 21:05:06 2009
> 1       n23G0uhc025757  Tue Mar  3 16:04:31 2009
> 1       n23G0Jnl025407  Tue Mar  3 16:03:19 2009
> [root at mailrelay5 ~]# 
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> 1. Residual stuff from yesterday afternoon and overnight.  The log 
> files indicate that these were processed OK.  (It so happens that all 
> were "Spam Actions: message ... actions are delete".)
Okay I'll need to take a closer look at that.
>
> 2. For the top entries, note the current time-of-day (c. 09.09) and 
> the "last tried" time... which is in the future.  (A few minutes later 
> those top entries (09:xx:yy) have disappeared.)  So it looks as though 
> something is either recording or reporting an incorrect time.  And I 
> suppose there's a chance that a bug here might be precipitating the 
> 'overnight residue' observation.
Sorry, I shouldn't have said "Last Tried". More accurate would be "Next 
Try At". Just a reporting issue.
>
>
>
> Further, the log file has a small number of "Making attempt 2 at ..."
> per hour.
>
>
> Let me know if you want any more information or to try new versions, etc.
>
> All the best.
>

Jules

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