On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:00:14AM +0100, Santiago Romero wrote: > I have a strange problem monitoring the "pickup" process: we have a > monitoring system that, sometimes, warns us with "pickup process not in > memory"
What is the meaning of this message? > Does the "wake up" restart the process itself? No, why should it? All the postfix processes are reused for a long time. > Is it safe to raise those 60 seconds to a more higher value, such as 600 > or so? No, at least not if you use the sendmail command. > Am I right with the "synchronization" hypotesis or could be something > different? Find out what the message means. What I would suspect: the check wants to warn if the memory of a process gets swapped out. On a modern operation system such a metric is unusable. Bastian -- Conquest is easy. Control is not. -- Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror", stardate unknown