On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:53:07PM -0700, Sean Peterson wrote:
> I have been searching the archives to no avail,
>
> My mailserver running qmail-1.03 has started creating lots of
> qmail-queue processes to the point where it chokes any incoming email. I
> have gone through the log files and cannot find anything that looks
> funny. I see a huge amount of zero size files in the queue/mess/*
> directories with no corresponding info or local or remote files.
>
> I have stopped qmail, cleaned the zero files out, started qmail.
> Everything works great, until this process starts all over, zero size
> files appearring in the mess directories and qmail-queue start amassing
> and the server chokes.
>
> If anyone has any info on why this occurs and how to correct it, please
> let me know, thank you.
How old are these processes? Are they all originating from an smtp
connection?
What does a system call trace (strace, truss, etc) on the qmail-queue
processes shows? Are they sitting on a read()?
How many is a "huge amount"? Is it larger than the number of
qmail-queue processes?
Could it be a DOS on your SMTP port(s)?
Regards.
