> bjv:
> What has started to happen today is that receiving mail is slow, between
> the '.' and 'ok' from qmail (got that from telnet to port 25). Even slower
> is its sending, which is about a message every 5 or 10 seconds. The other
> noticable problem is that there are thousands of qmail-queue processes
> running concurrently in the process table. Most of the processes are
did you concurrency-limit outgoing/incoming connections via
control/concurrency{remote,local} and tcpserver -c and -b or the
appropriate inetd.conf settings?
did you check:
z0:57:55:600:/queue/lock/:sendmutex:
z1024:56:55:644:/queue/lock/:tcpto:
p:57:55:622:/queue/lock/:trigger:
which is, ls-itarary speaking, or ls-wise, or simply wise:
(ls -l /var/qmail/queue/lock/)
total 1
-rw------- 1 qmails qmail 0 May 13 13:59 sendmutex
-rw-r--r-- 1 qmailr qmail 1024 Jun 7 04:16 tcpto
prw--w--w- 1 qmails qmail 0 Jun 7 08:53 trigger
qmail depends on these.
clemens