Ok, I did not have spam processing...only have a/v processing and rblsmtpd sbl.spamhaus.org checking.
I did not set quarantine notification to anybody. I will examine on the message headers as you suggested. Thank you. Regards, rootlinux --- Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed May 19 2004 09:31 am, root linux wrote: > > honestly that doesn't look at all unusual to me if > you receive a lot of email. > our process list is almost triple that all the time. > however there is one > thing you should do, since you could be bottled up > in either a/v processing, > spam processing or writing out in a large quarantine > directory. > > first examine message headers. At the end of the > qmail-scanner-queue entry > will be a process time. with only a few exceptions > it should NEVER exceed 0.3 > seconds. If it does, look for reasons why it is > being delayed in the external > processes. Also, be sure to empty your quarantine > directories often. if the > directories get too large it will take forever to > write the new ones out. > also limit your quarantine notifications to one or > two deliveries instead of > a list of people. I delete ours every 3 hours. we > accumulate almost a gb of > quarantines in about 5 hrs of running, so I delete > them all every 3 hours for > safety and to keep things running quickly. other > than that, it looks like an > average semi-busy server to me. > > > Chuck > > > Hi all, > > > > I have lots of the below process running when I > run > > "ps -ef" at the command prompt, is it normal? > > > > Btw, I am running Red Hat 7.2 with qmail 1.03 and > > qmail-scanner 1.16 > > > > qmaild 6407 5946 0 21:12 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6408 6407 0 21:12 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6414 5946 0 21:12 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6419 6414 0 21:12 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6453 5946 0 21:13 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmaild 6543 5946 0 21:14 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6553 6543 0 21:14 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6557 5946 0 21:14 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmaild 6682 5946 0 21:15 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmaild 6713 5946 0 21:15 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6714 6713 0 21:15 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6748 5946 0 21:16 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6749 6748 0 21:16 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6758 5946 0 21:16 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6759 6758 0 21:16 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6806 5946 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6807 6806 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6808 5946 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6813 6808 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6823 5946 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmaild 6825 5946 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmaild 6826 5946 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6827 6823 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6828 5946 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6829 6825 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmailq 6830 6826 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmailq 6831 6828 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6832 5946 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6845 6832 0 21:17 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6862 5946 0 21:18 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6864 6862 0 21:18 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6869 5946 0 21:18 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6870 6869 0 21:18 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6896 5946 0 21:18 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6897 6896 0 21:18 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6903 5946 0 21:18 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmaild 6908 5946 0 21:18 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6909 6908 0 21:18 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6946 5946 0 21:19 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6947 6946 0 21:19 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6964 5946 0 21:19 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6965 6964 0 21:19 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > qmaild 6974 5946 0 21:19 pts/0 00:00:00 > > qmail-smtpd > > qmailq 6983 6974 2 21:19 pts/0 00:00:00 > > /usr/bin/suidperl > > /dev/fd/4//var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl > > > > Regards, > > rootlinux > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? 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