Viktor Dukhovni:
> They are best left alone, but can be deleted with care, something
> along the lines of:
>
> # postfix stop
> # postsuper -s
> # cd /var/spool/postfix
> # (find defer -type f -print;
> find deferred -type f -print) |
> perl -lne '
> if (m{^defer/(?:.*/)?(.*)$}) {
> $defer{$1} = $_;
> } elsif (m{^deferred/(?:.*/)?(.*)$}) {
> delete $defer{$1};
> }
> END {
> while (($id, $path) = each(%defer)) {
> if (unlink($path)) {
> printf "%s defer log deleted\n", $id;
> } else {
> warn "unlink: $path: $!\n";
> }
> }
> }
> '
I had a similiar issue some years ago. A heavy loaded defer queue was so slow.
I noticed these orphaned files in defer/. I had the feeling the qmgr acts
faster after removing them.
For that reason I implemented a cronjob to search (but not delete) orphaned
files once a day.
cd ${QUEUE_DIR}/defer/
for deferinfo in `find . -type f`; do
if [ ! -f "../deferred/${deferinfo}" ]; then
ORPHANED_FILES="${ORPHANED_FILES} ${QUEUE_DIR}/defer/${deferinfo}"
fi
done
if test ! -z "${ORPHANED_FILES}"; then
echo
echo '* Infodateien ohne Queuedateien:'
echo '--------------------------------'
echo ${ORPHANED_FILES} | xargs ls -la
fi
That cronjob produces output very rarely but mostly after manual interaction
( postsuper -r ALL and so )
Andreas
