Noel Jones said the following on 01/08/2009 10:34 AM:
Postfix keeps idle processes around for $max_idle (default 100s), so
the process count is only an approximation of the number of
connections. Idle processes are reused $max_use (default 100) times
before they are retired. The number of pro
* Ralf Hildebrandt :
> Well, there ARE enough processes as is. Your server is very low
> volume it seems.
>
> > I ran the command on watch and the output never changes however postfix
> > is processing about 5 messages per minute. Why am I getting different
> > results? Is this a configuration
Cory Coager wrote:
Ralf Hildebrandt said the following on 01/08/2009 08:39 AM:
* Cory Coager :
I'm attempting to generate some rrd graphs to track MTA connections for
postfix. With sendmail it was possible to do this by greping the ps
list for the number of sendmail processes. How would I
* Cory Coager :
> Unfortunately its not working.
>
> # ps auxwww|grep "smtp -n"
> postfix 16747 0.0 0.0 3728 1172 ?S10:08 0:00 smtp -n
> pmx -t unix -u
> postfix 18905 0.0 0.0 3728 1160 ?S10:21 0:00 smtp -n
> pmx -t unix -u
>
> The version installed is 2
* Ralf Hildebrandt :
grep for the smtp processes (not smtpd)
(or vice versa)
The number of smtp processes never changes so this won't work.
Why ask if you know better? Of course it changes.
mail-ausfall:~# ps auxwww|grep "smtp -n" |wc -l
6
mail-ausfall:~# ps auxwww|
* Ralf Hildebrandt :
> >> grep for the smtp processes (not smtpd)
> >> (or vice versa)
>
> > The number of smtp processes never changes so this won't work.
>
> Why ask if you know better? Of course it changes.
mail-ausfall:~# ps auxwww|grep "smtp -n" |wc -l
6
mail-ausfall:~# ps auxwww|grep "smt
* Cory Coager :
>>> I'm attempting to generate some rrd graphs to track MTA connections for
>>> postfix. With sendmail it was possible to do this by greping the ps
>>> list for the number of sendmail processes. How would I accomplish this
>>> on postfix?
>>>
>>
>> grep for the smtp processe
Ralf Hildebrandt said the following on 01/08/2009 08:39 AM:
* Cory Coager :
I'm attempting to generate some rrd graphs to track MTA connections for
postfix. With sendmail it was possible to do this by greping the ps
list for the number of sendmail processes. How would I accomplish this
on p
* Cory Coager :
> I'm attempting to generate some rrd graphs to track MTA connections for
> postfix. With sendmail it was possible to do this by greping the ps
> list for the number of sendmail processes. How would I accomplish this
> on postfix?
grep for the smtp processes (not smtpd)
(or vice
