I have been working the DEBUG_LEVEL, but there really isn't anything out of the ordinary showing up...that's the confusing part.
When I do: strace -p <xxx> I get: attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): Operation not permitted I'm no C programmer, so I have no idea what that means. However, when I tried it earlier it seemed to attach and listen...but now I get what is above. Again, thanks all for your help...much appreciated. -- Jason On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 15:09, Paul Stevens wrote: > Jason, > > Have you tried attaching a strace to the process involved? > That might give you an idea of what's eating so much cpu cycles. > > strace -p <pid> > > Also, use the DEBUG_LEVEL in the config. It's your friend in an hour of > need. > > > > > Jason Burfield wrote: > > It's dbmail-pop3d. > > > > Currently TOP is showing this: > > > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > > 21088 root 15 0 564 564 500 S 99.9 0.0 181:42 dbmail-pop3d > > > > The database currently has all proper indexes...and it does not seem to > > be a MySQL issue at all. > > > > And, the load average continues to grow the longer that dbmail-pop3d > > continues to run. > > > > It is currently at 11.57 > > > > This is the highest I personally have EVER seen one of my machines go. > > > > Also, when I check the maillog it does not seem to be doing anything out > > of the ordinary. It almost looks like one child process has just run off > > and refuses to stop...but the log is not showing tons of stuff going on. > > > > I'm totally freaked and confused now! > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- Jason > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 14:39, Aaron Stone wrote: > > > >>When you run top, do you find that most of the CPU time is being taken by > >>dbmail-pop3d itself, or by mysqld? In the latter case, you may do well to > >>tune the database a bit in my.cnf, and to add the indices posted to the > >>list a couple of times. If it's pop3d.. umm... sounds bad, post more info! > >> > >>Aaron > >> > >> > >>On 16 May 2003, Jason Burfield wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I have searched through back messages and found one thread with someone > >>>having huge load averages caused by dbmail-smtpd. > >>> > >>>Well...I'm getting HUGE load averages with dbmail-pop3d. > >>> > >>>For whatever reason the load average on my box is jumping up to well > >>>over 7.00 after dbmail-pop3d has been running for a few minutes. > >>> > >>>This is on a dual 2.4ghz Xeon with 4 gigs of RAM...so I can't for the > >>>life of me, imagine what would cause that type of load. > >>> > >>>This mail server went up last night...so in the past 24 hours it has > >>>accepted something around 2000 messages. We do have lots of clients > >>>checking mail frequently, around every 5 minutes, however, I wouldn't > >>>think that would cause this type of load. > >>> > >>>I'm running dmail-1.1, MySQL and Postfix on Linux. (RH 8) > >>> > >>>As an example, at this very moment the box has a load average of 5.62. > >>>There are currently 6 clients connected to the pop server. > >>> > >>>Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this? We don't have that > >>>many clients, only about 300 email clients...what type of load should be > >>>expected from that type of base? > >>> > >>>Any help is greatly appreciated. > >>> > >>>Thanks! > >>> > >>> -- Jason > >>> > >>> -- Jason Burfield > >>> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>Dbmail mailing list > >>>Dbmail@dbmail.org > >>>https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > >>> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Dbmail mailing list > >>Dbmail@dbmail.org > >>https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dbmail mailing list > > Dbmail@dbmail.org > > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > > >
