Juan Miscaro wrote: > >There must be some other mechanism at play here because there was very >little of the heldmsg-* files. However, when I discarded them >(bin/discard) and restarted qrunner again I (postfix) am swamped with >messages.
I suspect that you had a lot of messages queued in the 'virgin', 'in' or 'out' queue and the corresponding qrunner wasn't running. >I am looking in (for OpenBSD) /var/spool/mailman and I see >some large directories: > > >$ du -sh * > >199M archives >172K data >18.6M lists >2.0K locks >64.6M logs >38.3M qfiles >2.0K spam > > >$ du -sh logs/* > >4.3M logs/bounce >240K logs/error >30.0K logs/locks >12.0K logs/mischief >320K logs/post >138K logs/qrunner >6.2M logs/smtp >52.5M logs/smtp-failure >864K logs/subscribe >38.0K logs/vette It looks like you have lots of log entries. Do you rotate your logs? >$ du -sh qfiles/* > >2.0K qfiles/archive >48.0K qfiles/bounces >2.0K qfiles/commands >238K qfiles/in >2.0K qfiles/news >2.0M qfiles/out >2.0K qfiles/retry >24.3M qfiles/shunt >11.7M qfiles/virgin These big qfiles entries can be either a very large directory itself or lots of stuff in the directory or both. Large directories result from the corresponding runner not running and many messages piling up in the queue. Once the runner starts, the messages are processed and removed, but the directory itself never shrinks unless you do it manually. The shunt queue doesn't have a runner. Messages that encounter unanticipated processing exceptions are placed in the shunt queue, and the exception is logged in the error log. It is up to you to fix the problem and delete the shunt queue entry or reprocess the shunted messages with bin/unshunt. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
