Charles Cazabon wrote:
>
> eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyone else seeing similar stuff happening? I'm running qmail-1.03
without
> > any patches under RedHat 6.1 (kernel 2.2.12-20smp)
>
> Linux kernel version 2.2.12 has known bugs in its stack, and has been
> identified as a likely culprit for these symptoms before. Upgrade to
> 2.2.19 and the problem may just disappear.
>
If this is the problem I have been experiencing (qmail-remote
processes lasting a great deal longer than they should) then upgrading to
2.2.19 won't fix this problem.
A work-around is to enable socket keep-alives which (at least for
me) fixes the problem.
I've put the patch on the web at: http://www.duff.org/qmail/
Richard
P.S. Eric: ps -ef on modern RedHat distributions (and others) has a STIME
column which will tell you when the process started running.
