hi,
seen that behavior caused by bad attributes of the files in ~/qmail/queue/lock .
another possibility is the blocking of port 113(auth) in firewalls. this port should
be open BUT no service in inetd.conf
configured.
may be worth a look...
;) a
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Deslions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 6:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Queue growing...
>
>
> ok...
> i'm running on a raid mirroring scsi drive...
> i guess i should try stripping instead
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Envoy� : Wednesday, October 25, 2000 18:23
> � : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Objet : Re: Queue growing...
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:26:41PM +0200, Nicolas Deslions wrote:
>
> > it's REALLY slow... i have a lot of system ressources free and not much
> > processes running... strange...
>
> Unfortunately all the memory and all the CP in the world isn't going to
> make your disk spin any faster.
>
> What you are experiencing is not unique. Disk i/o is often what qmail
> installations run out of first. Mind you it has to be some resource that
> runs
> out first so don't feel too bad.
>
>
> Regards.
>
> >
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Petr Novotny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Envoy� : Wednesday, October 25, 2000 15:20
> > � : Nicolas Deslions
> > Objet : Re: Queue growing...
> >
> >
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> > On 25 Oct 2000, at 15:13, Nicolas Deslions wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I just setup a new qmail, with concurrency set to 300, we also changed
> > > our "mailers" here ( progs we use to format an outgoing press revue)
> > > Our new mailer is really fast to send and the queue on qmail is only
> > > growing, i only have from 3 to 12 concurrent remote process...
> > >
> > > messages in queue: 7595
> > > messages in queue but : 5591
> > >
> > > Why do i have so many "not yet preprocessed" messages ??
> >
> > Because once the directory becomes full, operations like open()
> > and unlink() slow down noticeably. There are three solutions:
> > 1. Throttle down the injection process to keep the todo directory
> > from overflowing.
> > 2. Get a decent filesystem (like reiserfs for linux)
> > 3. Apply a big-todo patch (it hashes the todo directory in the same
> > way the mess, remote etc. directories are hashed). [Keep in mind
> > that you need to empty the queue, first.]
> >
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> > Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS
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> > -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk.
> > [Tom Waits]
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