On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:49:33AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > In your case, the smtpd process gets stuck, the cleanup process > gives up after waiting for one hour, and then the smtpd process > becomes un-stuck more than 9 minutes later. In the mean time, the > SMTP client and the cleanup process have gone away, but of course > the smtpd process discovers that only after it becomes un-stuck. > > I have no idea why the smtpd process would get stuck except of > course for kernel bugs.
Or network data dribbling in very slowly, so that smtpd is not so much stuck as swimming through a tarpit. To discover which, a (full packet binary) tcpdump capture is required. -- Viktor. Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.