Jesse Sanford wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm using netqmail-1.05 with qmail-scanner-queue 2.00, plus vpopmail > but not in pop-before-smtp mode (I only provide IMAP and I use > smtp-auth + ssl). Since I upgraded over the weekend, it seems a lot > of qmail-scanner processes never exit. Messages get delivered, but > some erratically get delivered very slowly. qmail-smtpd processes > launch qmail-scanner processes until my concurrencyincoming (30) is > reached, and even at very idle times the past few days qmail-smtpd has > been running 22-24/30. Seems qmail-scanner-queue.pl processes just > hang around in memory for a long time, sometimes preventing inbound > messages from being received... >
What does "ps auxww|grep qscan" show? Are there just qmail-scanner-queue.pl processes lying around - or are there also calls to SpamAssassin or AV too? > I did run qmail-scanner-queue.pl -x to clear out the spool. You mean "-z" don't you? There has never been a "-x" option :-) > Many of the long-running idle processes have 0-length files in > /var/spool/qscand/working/tmp/ which are not deleted because they are > not yet 30 hours old. I am finding that about 4/5 of the files > written to /var/spool/qscand/working/tmp are 0-length files -- which > could be a side effect of users' smtp-auth clients terminating > improperly or timing out, I guess. Should I just modify the script to > delete 0-length files older than an hour or something? > Nope - leave it be. You need to find out what's causing it first. > What could cause this? Running with $DEBUG=1, I find no unusual > messages in qmail-queue.log -- entries for the various relevant > processes complete eventually in some cases or just stop arbitrarily > in the middle... What does "in the middle" mean? Where are these things hanging? -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list Qmail-scanner-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
