Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Norton
Christopher Chan wrote: Do you sometimes find anvil missing? I wonder if you can strace master and see what it is doing or waiting for... This happened again this morning. I see the anvil process died - 22815 ? Z 0:13 [anvil] defunct # strace -p 22799 Process 22799 attached - interrupt to

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Norton
Joshua Gimer wrote: Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. What does the IO wait look like on the system? Is this system under high load? Only late at night when back up scripts are running. At this time though is when

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-12 Thread Christopher Chan
Paul Norton wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Do you sometimes find anvil missing? I wonder if you can strace master and see what it is doing or waiting for... This happened again this morning. I see the anvil process died - 22815 ? Z 0:13 [anvil] defunct # strace -p 22799 Process 22799

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-11 Thread Christopher Chan
Do you sometimes find anvil missing? I wonder if you can strace master and see what it is doing or waiting for... This happened again this morning. I see the anvil process died - 22815 ? Z 0:13 [anvil] defunct # strace -p 22799 Process 22799 attached - interrupt to quit futex(0xb7bc2bec,

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-11 Thread Christopher Chan
John Thomas wrote: Paul Norton said the following on 11/07/2007 10:57 AM: Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. I have had a similar problem, but Postfix continues to operate. I am running CentOS 5.0 with all updates as a

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-11 Thread Christopher Chan
Do you sometimes find anvil missing? I wonder if you can strace master and see what it is doing or waiting for... This happened again this morning. I see the anvil process died - 22815 ? Z 0:13 [anvil] defunct # strace -p 22799 Process 22799 attached - interrupt to quit futex(0xb7bc2bec,

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-10 Thread Paul Norton
Christopher Chan wrote: Paul Norton wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Paul Norton wrote: Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix stop` and I get a

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-10 Thread John Thomas
Paul Norton said the following on 11/07/2007 10:57 AM: Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. I have had a similar problem, but Postfix continues to operate. I am running CentOS 5.0 with all updates as a virtual machine

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-10 Thread Joshua Gimer
Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. What does the IO wait look like on the system? Is this system under high load? You might want to check to make sure that syslog is not calling sync every time that it writes to

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-09 Thread Paul Norton
Christopher Chan wrote: Paul Norton wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Paul Norton wrote: Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix stop` and I get a

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-08 Thread Paul Norton
Christopher Chan wrote: Paul Norton wrote: Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix stop` and I get a failed start. Running `ps ax | grep postfix` I can

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-08 Thread Christopher Chan
Paul Norton wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Paul Norton wrote: Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix stop` and I get a failed start. Running `ps ax

[CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-07 Thread Paul Norton
Hello list, Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix stop` and I get a failed start. Running `ps ax | grep postfix` I can see one process still running

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-07 Thread Florin Andrei
Paul Norton wrote: Hello list, Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix stop` and I get a failed start. Running `ps ax | grep postfix` I can see one