We're still having an issue with our server spooling out of control. Here is a capture from top: 1:23pm up 7 days, 11:24, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.22, 0.14 510 processes: 464 sleeping, 1 running, 45 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.7% user, 6.1% system, 0.0% nice, 93.0% idle Mem: 582248K av, 552760K used, 29488K free, 321460K shrd, 152660K buff Swap: 514040K av, 0K used, 514040K free 207648K cached The system looks stable except for the 500+ processes and the 45 zombies. ps -ef | grep popper shows over 270 pop requests. This is a sampling: wandad 14992 1 0 Nov13 ? 00:00:00 popper -scR wandad 14997 1 0 Nov13 ? 00:00:00 popper -scR jassyd 15002 1 0 Nov13 ? 00:00:00 popper -scR wandad 15009 1 0 Nov13 ? 00:00:00 popper -scR root 15711 1 0 Nov13 ? 00:00:00 popper -scR root 15726 1 0 Nov13 ? 00:00:00 popper -scR root 15729 1 0 Nov13 ? 00:00:00 popper -scR root 15731 1 0 Nov13 ? 00:00:00 popper -scR root 15735 1 0 Nov13 ? 00:00:00 popper -scR How can one user have multiple pop requests? And why does root have so many? I'm under the impression that root is owning the requests that haven't been handed off, but I'm certainly no expert. Can anyone suggest a solution of any sort? Has anyone else faced this issue? We are running popper from inet with the following: pop3 stream tcp nowait.75 root /usr/local/lib/popper popper -scR And I compiled 3.1.2 as follows: ./configure --enable-specialauth --enable-temp-drop-dir=/var/spool/poptemp --enable-debugging --enable-servermode --enable-shy --with-log-facility=LOG_LOCAL0 --enable-timing -- =============================================== Kip Turk phone: 915.234.5678 Systems Administrator or 800.695.9016 Killer of Spam/Writer of Code/Penguin Proponent West Central Net fax: 915.656.0071 ===============================================
