All the messages were going to different places, as farb as I can tell
they were very large cc lists.
Will wait for ti to happen again and get better logging... set up
thanks.
Paul Farber
Farber Technology
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, James Raftery wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:20:37AM -0400, Paul Farber wrote:
> > I grepped the maillog and no exiting was found.
>
> Then I'm not certain qmail-send actually exited.
>
> > As for tcpserver logs, I don't log that info to speed up the server.... I
> > only get qmail messages.
>
> Fair enough, that's your choice. Though I would suggest looking at
> multilog (from daemontools). I find it very efficient.
>
> > I'm not sure about the triggers, but no one was logged in (that I could
> > find) and the only thing that I saw abnormal was the remote concurrency go
> > from 0-96 (first due to CNAME failures), then remote slowly declined to 0,
> > then it ramped back up to 96 with what appeared as remotes going through,
> > then it trickled down to 0, then back up to 96 with more remote
> > deliveries.
>
> I think it's quite likely you're seeing qmail merely retrying messages
> it's had to defer because of DNS problems. Are the 96 messages destined
> for addresses within the same domain? Or perhaps in domains served by
> the same nameservers?
>
> The scenario could have been something like:
> 1. qmail receives ~90 messages to be sent to domain X.
> 2. Domain X has dodgy DNS, messages all get deferred.
> 3. qmail waits a bit, and tries (all) the deferred messages again.
> 4. Repeat 2 and 3 until DNS problems get sorted.
>
> > I never see concurrency remotes that high.. generally 20 is a big number..
> > that's why I think that has *something* to do with it.
>
> DNS problems, especially those that manifest themselves as time-outs,
> will lengthen how long a qmail-remote runs for each delivery
> attempt. When they run for longer more of them are likely to be
> running concurrently.
>
> Regards,
>
> james
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