The following is something I've noticed as a recurrent problem that I'm
having. qmail-send processes just seem to get "stuck". I assumed they
were waiting on a response from a slow MX, but in order to try to avoid
this I have set /var/qmail/control/timeouremote to 180 seconds
$ date ; ps ax | grep qmail-remote | grep -v grep
Wed Aug 8 08:51:45 CDT 2001
18813 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
27933 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
30405 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5784 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote hmr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
9924 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote msn.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
10980 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$ date ; ps ax | grep qmail-remote | grep -v grep
Wed Aug 8 09:19:27 CDT 2001
18813 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
27933 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
30405 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5784 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote hmr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
$ ps ax | grep qmail-send
688 ? S 20:37 qmail-send
13381 pts/5 S 0:00 grep qmail-send
$ sudo kill -ALRM 688
$ date ; ps ax | grep qmail-remote | grep -v grep
Wed Aug 8 09:21:21 CDT 2001
18813 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
27933 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
30405 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5784 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote hmr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
13314 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote norman.bay9.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
13376 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote norman.bay9.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
13398 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote hmr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
13408 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote usa.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
13442 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote newsletter.ourhouse.com
OurHouse.com___
13462 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote norman.bay9.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
13479 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote anon.lcs.mit.edu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mail
13483 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote norman.bay9.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
13495 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote yaho.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
play4money@ya
13503 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote norman.bay9.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
13512 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote norman.bay9.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
13531 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote norman.bay9.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
$ date ; ps ax | grep qmail-remote | grep -v grep
Wed Aug 8 09:40:48 CDT 2001
18813 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
27933 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
30405 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5784 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote hmr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
~$ date ; ps ax | grep qmail-remote | grep -v grep
Wed Aug 8 10:22:42 CDT 2001
18813 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
27933 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
30405 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote ofr.pm0.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5784 ? S 0:00 qmail-remote hmr.pm0.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The four processes that I'm worrried about are 18813, 27933, 30405, and
5784. They've been active for about 2 hours and maybe longer (who knows
how long they had been running when I started this log).
Anyone else seeing similar stuff happening? I'm running qmail-1.03 without
any patches under RedHat 6.1 (kernel 2.2.12-20smp)
Eric Calvert
