At 05:59 AM 5/13/99 -0700, Christopher Porreca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I have a problem with my qmail system. We've been running mail for almost a
>year now with no major incidents to report.. until now.
>
>Our mail queue started filling up yesterday and mail delivery seemed to have
>slowed down to a crawl.. (It took hours to deliver messages.) I see a very
>cyclical load average on the machine ranging from .45 to 2.3, up and down
>every 2-3 minutes or so. The mail queue itself (which is usually around
>60-80 megabytes large) has grown to 300 megabytes in the past 24 hours. The
>machine itself does not seem to be struggling in any way, but the queue just
>will not flush out. There does not seem to be any (much) spam throughout
>the mail queue, and there is no steady stream of large messages from any one
>peticular source.
>
>I was hoping that the queue would flush out last night when it was about 250
>megabytes, but barely any messages got delivered and it's up to 300 megs
>this morning.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be happening on my mail server?
>Thank you everyone for your help!
What does the maillog file show as reasons for non-delivery?
Are the message in the queue (The bulk of them) for local or remote
delivery?
If remote, are they destined for one particular remote network?
Is your DNS server healthy?
Gerry
