I got a call tonight telling me my mail server was not accepting mail reliably - lots of delays and timeouts. Sigh.
I logged onto my mail server, and discovered that ASSP (RC25) was DYING outright every 3-4 minutes - it would just lock up and hang, stop writing to the log, all attempts to connect to SMTP were dropped instantly. My server monitor would detect that it had failed, kill the perl process and restart ASSP, it would run for another 3-4 minutes, then lock up again. The thing is, it was working PERFECTLY. I last restarted it at exactly 1:00 pm, and it was still under heavy load at that time. Looking at my log, it ran continuously without a hiccup until 6:52 pm, when it locked up. I first disabled the ASSP_AttachmentFullCheck.pm plugin and restarted. No change. I reverted to RC24. No change. Went back to RC25. Still no change. Back to RC22. Finally, I reverted back to 2.0.0(16.11), my old standby...and everything started working perfectly again. I let it run for 25 minutes, then, just for kicks, tried RC25 again. It ran perfectly! What the hell? So I let it run for 25 minutes, then stopped and restarted it...and it locked up within 30 seconds of starting. I tried it again. It locked up 30 seconds later. Once more...and it locked up within 30 seconds. I put 16.11 back in, and it's now locking up within 30 seconds!! Right now, I don't have a functioning mail server, and I have no idea why. What is blowing my mind is that it ran without a hitch for almost 6 hours, then started locking up every few minutes. Despite the fact that the server load is almost nil right now, it is now locking up within 30 seconds of startup. Apr-29-09 13:00:44 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 18:52:50 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 19:04:33 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 19:21:46 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 19:29:59 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 19:34:26 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 19:38:53 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 19:48:35 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 20:05:49 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 20:13:17 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 20:45:33 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 20:54:31 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 21:07:14 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 21:18:27 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 21:22:54 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 21:42:25 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 21:49:53 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 21:55:50 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 22:04:47 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 22:10:44 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 22:15:57 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.24) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 22:34:09 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 22:41:21 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 22:44:46 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 22:49:55 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.22) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 22:52:34 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.22) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 22:57:28 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.22) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 22:59:45 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.22) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 23:11:57 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.22) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 23:32:45 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 23:36:04 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.22) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 23:38:12 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.22) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-29-09 23:41:16 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.0(16.11) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-30-09 00:05:34 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-30-09 00:23:24 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-30-09 00:25:38 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-30-09 00:28:18 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-30-09 00:30:17 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.1(RC 0.0.25) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-30-09 00:32:35 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.0(16.11) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-30-09 00:34:13 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.0(16.11) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Apr-30-09 00:36:22 [startup] ASSP version 2.0.0(16.11) (Perl 5.010000) (on MSWin32) initializing Scott MacLean [email protected] http://www.hollsco.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. 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