On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:41:25AM -0500, Collin B. McClendon wrote:
> I do have some relevant log files, however they are quite large. I am
> running RedHat Linux
> 6.2. Previously I was using OpenBSD 2.7. Thanks for the tip on qmail-qmqpc,
> I'll look into this.
and also:
> Hello all,
> Per Mark's suggestion I have put my maillogs up for perusal at this URL:
> http://listserv.investorlinks.com/qmail/
>
> I am using Qmail 1.03 on RedHat Linux 6.2. I have applied big-concurrency,
> big-todo, fastforward and dotforward.
> I also am use the tcpserver from uscpi tools. I have soft linked my rc file
> and controls directory as well.
> My kernel FD_DESCRIPTORs are set at 4096 and I used systctl.conf to change
> my fs.inode-max to 65536 and
> my fs.file-max to 16384. The symptoms so far have been an increase in
> delivery times unless I restart qmail every day or so.
> I also have noticed my queue stays around 300 or so permanently and
> unprocessed mailings are around 10 during high load, 2 during normal
> operation. If there is any other relevant information that you can think of
> let me know. Thanks, I'd really appreciate any input you can give.
Just looking at maillog.1.gz:
It appears that your list needs cleaning up. Presumably your listserv
isn't dealing with bounces and rejections very well as the log shows
17,000+ "Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._(#4.1.2)/", and
13,000+ "Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/"
messages.
Now a lot of these are going to be retries, but it still seems like a
lot to me.
More convincing is that the 17,000+ "does_not_like_recipient"
messages.
So I'd really work hard to try and clean up that list. Are you sure
that the unsubscribe and bounce handling of listserv is actually
working and removing dead addresses?
Apart from that, your qmail install seems to be running just fine. Can
you identify the time and domain that "gets stuck" in maillog.1.gz?
Regards.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:31 AM
> To: Qmail List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Can a que in Qmail get stuck?
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:44:33AM -0500, Collin B. McClendon wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue. I am running listserv
> > lists with about 10k in one list and 20k in the other.
> > It seems that since i switched to Linux as the operating system instead of
> > BSD, the que gets stuck on one domain and takes forever.
> > The only way to get mail out in a reasonable amount of time is to kill all
> > qmail daemons and restart. When I was using BSD
> > this was never an issue. I have to use Linux since the listserv program
> runs
> > on this server as well and Listserv doesn't make a
> > Linux binary available. (I've tried emulation, no good).
> > Thanks for any input,
>
> Of course if you showed relevant log files of your problem then we'd
> be able to have a technical discussion rather than a seance...
>
> In the absence of any information about your system, your mail setup
> or your delivery logs, we can only assure you that lots of places run
> qmail without problems on varying versions of Linux (dunno about your
> version, you didn't say what it is), so it's probably something
> specific to your system.
>
> As an aside, if you still have the BSD machine and you cannot solve
> this particular problem, you may want to consider using qmail-qmqpc on
> Linux forwarding to your BSD box. That way you get listserv running on
> Linux and mail delivery running on BSD.
>
>
> Regards.
