On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Michael Holzt wrote: > > This has come up quite a few times, but with no resolution. Is anyone > > else getting files filling up ~smtpd/tmp? Over the last few days we've had > > literally gigabytes on a single relay. > > Hmm, qpsmtpd left 34 files since July 29th, but as i have a throughput of > arround 2000 mails per day this is only a very very small percentage. I do > not run spamassassin or clamav plugin.
This relay is handling 60-80K connections per day. The files seem to be a repetition of the same email repeatedly failing e.g. -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 27812 11 Sep 15:29 1094912941:9059:4 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 29664 11 Sep 15:29 1094912954:9102:3 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 32672344 11 Sep 15:44 1094913843:11517:2 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 26232336 11 Sep 15:47 1094914022:11887:0 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 32672344 11 Sep 15:49 1094914160:12466:4 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 505 11 Sep 15:54 1094914445:13726:4 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 1117 11 Sep 15:54 1094914461:13387:12 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 5910 11 Sep 15:54 1094914463:13815:1 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 32672344 11 Sep 16:02 1094914928:15470:1 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 0 11 Sep 16:03 1094914987:15737:5 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 26232336 11 Sep 16:06 1094915162:15900:19 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 0 11 Sep 16:11 1094915477:17023:16 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 0 11 Sep 16:14 1094915685:17337:9 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 32672344 11 Sep 16:15 1094915735:17613:6 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 32672344 11 Sep 16:28 1094916498:20246:6 -rw------- 1 smtpd nofiles 32672344 11 Sep 16:32 1094916717:20744:23 I see now that qpsmtpd is dying whilst waiting for qmail-scanner to finish: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:10:49 BST:69589: ini_sc: scanning message took 578.872712 seconds Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:10:49 BST:69589: q_s_c: Whoa! parent process is dead! (ppid=1) Better die too... Hmmmm, maybe this is to do with my 120s timeout or PPerl? More investigation required. Cheers. -- Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford Information Services Division, Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 4837 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key
