I have a hunch that it's something NOT qmail related, but to be honest, I don't
know where to start on something like this. You might want to consider running
to test shell scripts to generate a load and see what happens. Good Luck. Keep
the list posted, cause if this does turn out to be a qmail problem Dan will
certainly want to know about it.
At 07:26 PM 7/3/99 , you wrote:
>
> The first time it hung I just killed everything related to qmail and reran my
> rc.qmail file with all my boot up scripts... assuming it was just a fluke...
> The second time I had someone testing a web-based email form, so I really
> didn't have time to experiment with it so I just:
> killall qmail-send
> killall qmail-smtp
>
> Then restarted with:
> csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c100 -u502 -g500 0 smtp \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &
>
> It's running on a Redhat 6.0 box. It hasn't happened again thankfully, but
> it's not a production server and has a very small load... What would be a
> recommended procedure for diagnosing the exact problem the next time it
> occurs?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Doug Lumpkin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Robbie Walker wrote:
>>
>> Doug,
>>
>> This is a stumper. The lack of responses means "I don't know what's going
>> on here. I'm not going to speculate!"
>>
>> There is (most likely!!!) an obvious solution, but it's not apparent to me.
>>
>> Exactly what OS are you running? How often does the hang occur? When the
>> hang occurs, can you kill -ALRM qmail-send or kill -TERM qmail-send? (You
>> said you killed it, right? kill -9 or what?) What happens if you kill -9
>> qmail-smtpd instead of qmail-send?
>>
>> At 04:33 PM 7/3/99 , Doug Lumpkin wrote:
>> >Hi... I sent this info in a few days ago... Does anyone see anything wrong
>> >with my setup??? Or is the stoppage one of those mystery type things??
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >--
>> >Doug
>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >
>> >Doug Lumpkin wrote:
>> >
>> >> Answers follow below...
>> >>
>> >> Dave Sill wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Doug Lumpkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> > snip...
>> >>
>> >> > How are you running qmail-smtpd? Via tcpserver, inetd, or what? Show
>> >> > us the the commands.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> tcpserver...
>> >> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c100 -u502 -g500 0 smtp
>> >> \
>> >> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &
>> >>
>> >> > snip...
>> >> >
>> >> > How about providing "ps -ef|grep qmail" (or "ps waux|grep qmail")
>> >> > output before and during a "telnet localhost 25" attempt.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Before:
>> >> qmails 8350 0.0 0.2 1108 364 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> qmail-send
>> >> qmaild 8351 0.0 0.4 1304 564 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> /usr/local/bin/tc
>> >> pserver -R -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c100 -u502 -g500 0 s
>> >> qmaill 8352 0.0 0.3 1080 412 ? S Jun30 0:00 splogger
>> >> qmail
>> >> root 8353 0.0 0.2 1068 316 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> qmail-lspawn ./Ma
>> >> ildir/
>> >> qmailr 8354 0.0 0.2 1068 320 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> qmail-rspawn
>> >> qmailq 8355 0.0 0.2 1060 324 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> qmail-clean
>> >> root 8356 0.0 0.4 1304 560 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> /usr/local/bin/tc
>> >> pserver 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mark.bauer
>> >> root 9874 0.0 0.2 1096 300 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> bin/qmail-inject
>> >> -a -- root
>> >>
>> >> During:
>> >> qmails 8350 0.0 0.2 1108 364 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> qmail-send
>> >> qmaild 8351 0.0 0.4 1304 564 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> /usr/local/bin/tc
>> >> pserver -R -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c100 -u502 -g500 0 s
>> >> qmaill 8352 0.0 0.3 1080 412 ? S Jun30 0:00 splogger
>> >> qmail
>> >> root 8353 0.0 0.2 1068 316 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> qmail-lspawn ./Ma
>> >> ildir/
>> >> qmailr 8354 0.0 0.2 1068 320 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> qmail-rspawn
>> >> qmailq 8355 0.0 0.2 1060 324 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> qmail-clean
>> >> root 8356 0.0 0.4 1304 560 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> /usr/local/bin/tc
>> >> pserver 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mark.bauer
>> >> root 9874 0.0 0.2 1096 300 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> bin/qmail-inject
>> >> -a -- root
>> >> qmaild 25244 0.0 0.2 1072 296 ? S Jun30 0:00
>> >> /var/qmail/bin/qm
>> >> ail-smtpd
>> >> root 25257 0.0 0.3 1148 388 pts/0 R Jun30 0:00 grep
>> >> qmail
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > -Dave
>> >
>>
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>>
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>
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