On 24 Aug 2005 at 14:10, David F. Skoll wrote: > Nels Lindquist wrote: > > > The problem seems to be triggered when the load rises enough to spawn > > more than MX_MINIMUM slaves. Once those excess slaves have been idle > > for a while and the multiplexor attempts to shut them down, they > > become zombies. > > Really? The multiplexor should shut them down eventually (with a kill -9) > and reap them.
It's certainly trying: > Aug 24 09:26:13 aerodrome mimedefang-multiplexor[32444]: Killing idle > slave 7 (pid 680): Idle timeout > Aug 24 09:26:23 aerodrome mimedefang-multiplexor[32444]: Slave 7 (pid > 680) taking too long to exit; sending SIGTERM > Aug 24 09:26:33 aerodrome mimedefang-multiplexor[32444]: Slave 7 (pid > 680) taking way too long to exit; sending SIGKILL After the SIGKILL the process stays in a zombie state until MIMEDefang is restarted. Eventually there are MX_MAXIMUM zombie slaves and no new slaves can be started, so all mail is tempfailed. Does anyone have a script for generating load on a mail server? I want to trigger this situation at will in order to get an strace log for the SpamAssassin developers. ---- Nels Lindquist <*> Information Systems Manager Morningstar Air Express Inc. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
