Re: PATCH: Possible reasons for qmgr loading the system?

2009-03-06 Thread Santiago Romero
To apply this patch, cd into the Postfix-2.5.* top-level source directory and execute: $ patch thismessage We were able to reproduce the scheduler looping problem, and it does not recur with the patched version A question ... what' the way to make this patch to be included in Ubuntu

Re: PATCH: Possible reasons for qmgr loading the system?

2009-03-06 Thread Gerard
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:07:26 +0100 Santiago Romero srom...@servicom2000.com wrote: A question ... what' the way to make this patch to be included in Ubuntu Server postfix packages? I mean, should I submit your message+patch to the package maintainers of Ubuntu / Debian / Redhat so that new

Re: PATCH: Possible reasons for qmgr loading the system?

2009-03-06 Thread Santiago Romero
Gerard escribió: In a perfect world, the program maintainers would know about the patch and take steps to correct their package/port or whatever. You might want to contact the maintainer of Postfix for your Distro and see if they are planning on updating the package/port. Usually, they do get a

Re: PATCH: Possible reasons for qmgr loading the system?

2009-03-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Santiago Romero: To apply this patch, cd into the Postfix-2.5.* top-level source directory and execute: $ patch thismessage We were able to reproduce the scheduler looping problem, and it does not recur with the patched version A question ... what' the way to make this patch to

Re: PATCH: Possible reasons for qmgr loading the system?

2009-03-05 Thread Santiago Romero
Wietse Venema wrote: You might want to repeat your precise Postfix version at this point, and which queue manager version is configured in your master.cf. Current Postfix versions have (qmgr=new, oqmgr=old) in master.cf. Older Postfix versions have (nqmgr=new, qmgr=old) instead. The

Re: PATCH: Possible reasons for qmgr loading the system?

2009-03-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Santiago Romero: (I mean, setting rate_ values higher or lower so that the problem reproduces again faster, because it passed 5 days between the last 2 times qmgr ate the CPU...). Just run the same test. Thanks, Wietse

Re: PATCH: Possible reasons for qmgr loading the system?

2009-03-05 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:20:06PM +0100, Santiago Romero wrote: Well, I'm using postfix's ubuntu package, so it's not compiled from source code because I need all my ~=100 Linux machines to be easily updatable (apt-get update apt-get upgrade). In this case, I'm going to recompile .deb

Re: PATCH: Possible reasons for qmgr loading the system?

2009-03-05 Thread Santiago Romero
Please wait for an updated patch, we believe we have identified the cause and reproduced the symptoms (in that order). I have a candidate patch, but I expect Wietse will send an updated more polished version in the not too distant future. Ok, I'll wait for it. I'm going to roll back to

Re: PATCH: Possible reasons for qmgr loading the system?

2009-03-05 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:21:01PM +0100, Santiago Romero wrote: Please wait for an updated patch, we believe we have identified the cause and reproduced the symptoms (in that order). I have a candidate patch, but I expect Wietse will send an updated more polished version in the not too

Re: PATCH: Possible reasons for qmgr loading the system?

2009-03-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Santiago Romero: Please wait for an updated patch, we believe we have identified the cause and reproduced the symptoms (in that order). I have a candidate patch, but I expect Wietse will send an updated more polished version in the not too distant future. Ok, I'll wait for it.

Re: PATCH: Possible reasons for qmgr loading the system?

2009-03-05 Thread Gerard
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:03:11 -0500 (EST) wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: It will be later today. I don't have much time so I want to have it really right the first time. Code that is right takes more work than code that works. Reminds me of a plaque I have in my office. There

Re: PATCH: Possible reasons for qmgr loading the system?

2009-03-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: Santiago Romero: Please wait for an updated patch, we believe we have identified the cause and reproduced the symptoms (in that order). I have a candidate patch, but I expect Wietse will send an updated more polished version in the not too distant future.