On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 11:24:58PM +0200, Eric Persson wrote:
> Greg White wrote:
> > Is it completely dead, or just really slow? Try opening a connection to
> > port 25 and wait (at least one minute...). If it's just really slow, you
> > have a few possible sources of problems. If it's really dead, try tracing
> > it with your operating system's tracing utility. Trace the program from
> > start to when it dies, and post a URL where we can go read the trace.
> > (Your OS's tracing utility may be strace, truss, ktrace, or some other
> > program I'm not familiar with).
> 
> It seems to be completely dead, I can still connect to port 25 but
> nothing more.

That sounds like tcpserver is running, but cannot/will not exec
qmail-smtpd.
> 
> Since the load was quite high on the machine( about 2 ), and I was told
> it wasnt natural,

That sounds out of character for qmail, yes.
>
> I tried to eliminate that, I got hold of a new qmail
> start script which didnt use supervise. And the load lowered to 0.12
> from about 2.

Fork bombed by a bad 'run' script? Can we get the contents of
/service/qmail-smtpd/run (or whatever run file you're using) ?
> 
> I will try this instead, and see if the problem reappears, but it havent
> yet... 
> 
> Might it have been the load or some f*ckup with supervise?

More likely supervise forking qmail-smtpd over and over.... Let's see
that script, then we'll probably know.

-- 
Greg White

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