Re: Lots and lots of qmail-queue's

[Daniel Jovius - Telenordia AB /Algonet]

Check your tcpserver-log. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a broken M$
mailer that is trying to send the same email to you over and over again,
pretty much like a DOS-attack. This has happened to me several times 
and having IIS with SP4 causes it. There's more information in the
Qmail mailinglist-archive. http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000/



On 17 Aug 1999, Martin Ouwehand wrote:

> Has anybody seen this: from time to time, a whole bunch of qmail-queue's
> will accumulate (I'd say up to ~400), apparently doing nothing (ps shows
> that most of them have the same WCHAN, but not all of them). Most of
> them have 1 as PPID, a few still have qmail-smtpd as parent.
> 
> This has a serious impact on the through-put and reliability of our qmail
> server. Right now, killing and restarting "tcpserver [...] qmail-smtpd"
> fixes the problem, but I'd really like to know what is going on to altogether
> avoid this behavior. BTW, this is a Solaris 2.5 machine.
> 
> Any idea ?
>                                          Martin
> 
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/ daj