Re: [Declude.JunkMail] multiple simultaneous problems
Check the IMAP logs of recent compared to some of the older ones. We should rule out that someone is not hitting you with excessive connections etc. A couple weeks ago one of my systems started having problems with the POP3 service being slow or timing out. It turned out someone was running an automated tool to try and crack accounts/passwords. Darrell -- Check out http://www.invariantsystems.com for utilities for Declude, Imail, mxGuard, and ORF. IMail/Declude Overflow Queue Monitoring, SURBL/URI integration, MRTG Integration, and Log Parsers. David Dodell wrote: -Original Message- From: "Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Which RBL's are timing out? Is your DNS server having problems? Is your DNS server local to the mail server or is it located somewhere else? It is totally random ... sometimes none of them for several messages, other times, the first several work, and the rest fail ... doesn't seem to be any pattern (3) IMAP4d32.exe services are running 99% of the cpu time ... This will essentially starve out Declude and anything else. I have seen several folks have this issue on the Imail list. What version of Imail are you using? 9.23 since it was released ... been running it for a while. Any thoughts on where to start ... I've rebooted, stopped services, restarted services ... works fine for about 8 hrs then starts up all over again I would start with the IMAP4D issue. Darrell, I agree ... just wish I knew what was affecting it. Another response suggested the file system ... and I noticed the comment from the Sniffer people about NTFS. We have had some bad sectors on our hard drive starting about a few weeks ago ... Ran chkdsk etc and that seemed to have caught them, ran a defrag session today ... I order today a new Barracuda ES2 drive for the server, which will arrive Monday and I'll attempt to clone. Linda @ Declude suggested I might be having a bad network card go bad, which she thinks is attributing to the failed RBL issues, but I don't think that would affect the IMAP usage. Short of installing a new network card / drive ... any other thoughts what to try? David --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. -- --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
Re: [Declude.JunkMail] multiple simultaneous problems
It might help to open task manager and reduce the service priority for the time being to give you a little more breathing room until you get the problem sorted out. Brian David Dodell wrote: -Original Message- From: "Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Which RBL's are timing out? Is your DNS server having problems? Is >your DNS server local to the mail server or is it located somewhere else? It is totally random ... sometimes none of them for several messages, other times, the first several work, and the rest fail ... doesn't seem to be any pattern > (3) IMAP4d32.exe services are running 99% of the cpu time ... > This will essentially starve out Declude and anything else. I have seen >several folks have this issue on the Imail list. What version of Imail >are you using? 9.23 since it was released ... been running it for a while. > Any thoughts on where to start ... I've rebooted, stopped services, > restarted services ... works fine for about 8 hrs then starts up all > over again >I would start with the IMAP4D issue. Darrell, I agree ... just wish I knew what was affecting it. Another response suggested the file system ... and I noticed the comment from the Sniffer people about NTFS. We have had some bad sectors on our hard drive starting about a few weeks ago ... Ran chkdsk etc and that seemed to have caught them, ran a defrag session today ... I order today a new Barracuda ES2 drive for the server, which will arrive Monday and I'll attempt to clone. Linda @ Declude suggested I might be having a bad network card go bad, which she thinks is attributing to the failed RBL issues, but I don't think that would affect the IMAP usage. Short of installing a new network card / drive ... any other thoughts what to try? David --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
Re: [Declude.JunkMail] multiple simultaneous problems
-Original Message- From: "Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Which RBL's are timing out? Is your DNS server having problems? Is >your DNS server local to the mail server or is it located somewhere else? It is totally random ... sometimes none of them for several messages, other times, the first several work, and the rest fail ... doesn't seem to be any pattern > (3) IMAP4d32.exe services are running 99% of the cpu time ... > This will essentially starve out Declude and anything else. I have seen >several folks have this issue on the Imail list. What version of Imail >are you using? 9.23 since it was released ... been running it for a while. > Any thoughts on where to start ... I've rebooted, stopped services, > restarted services ... works fine for about 8 hrs then starts up all > over again >I would start with the IMAP4D issue. Darrell, I agree ... just wish I knew what was affecting it. Another response suggested the file system ... and I noticed the comment from the Sniffer people about NTFS. We have had some bad sectors on our hard drive starting about a few weeks ago ... Ran chkdsk etc and that seemed to have caught them, ran a defrag session today ... I order today a new Barracuda ES2 drive for the server, which will arrive Monday and I'll attempt to clone. Linda @ Declude suggested I might be having a bad network card go bad, which she thinks is attributing to the failed RBL issues, but I don't think that would affect the IMAP usage. Short of installing a new network card / drive ... any other thoughts what to try? David --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
Re: [Declude.JunkMail] multiple simultaneous problems
David, Comment's inline (2) Declude is failing to make connections on RBL tests about 10 to 20% of the time. Running in debug mode will show one message running against multiple DBL tests, and then the message will show the first 5 DBL tests running, and the rest fail with "no connection" Which RBL's are timing out? Is your DNS server having problems? Is your DNS server local to the mail server or is it located somewhere else? (3) IMAP4d32.exe services are running 99% of the cpu time ... This will essentially starve out Declude and anything else. I have seen several folks have this issue on the Imail list. What version of Imail are you using? (4) Multiple instances of the sniffer exe program This is normal - on my server with a decent volume its not uncommon to see 20-30 sniffer's running at the same time. It all depends on how many threads you are running. Any thoughts on where to start ... I've rebooted, stopped services, restarted services ... works fine for about 8 hrs then starts up all over again I would start with the IMAP4D issue. Darrell -- Check out http://www.invariantsystems.com for utilities for Declude, Imail, mxGuard, and ORF. IMail/Declude Overflow Queue Monitoring, SURBL/URI integration, MRTG Integration, and Log Parsers. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
Re: [Declude.JunkMail] multiple simultaneous problems
On Feb 29, 2008, at 1:38 AM, John T wrote: 1) Are they just q files or d files or both? Both, 13000 files this morning from overnight total .2) Tripple check the DNS server(s) being used for problems. I have, plus we tried an external DNS and same issue. 3) Do you have a lot of large mailboxes? Has the amount of email flowing in increased? Nope ... maybe a total of 100 active mailboxes ... 4) Review information on the Sniffer list about updating to the new service model. I should be on the latest version of Sniffer ... just renewed my contract ... haven't made any changes to the configuration in months. Also, what version of Imail, what version of Declude? 9.23 imail ... was running the latest release of Declude ... declude moved me to the latest beta yesterday. Woke up and checked ... IMAP4d32 is running at 90+ % of the CPU still. There are multiple instances of the bcl*.exe (my sniffer) running ... probably 30 or 40 copies open in the processes. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
Re: [Declude.JunkMail] multiple simultaneous problems
1) Are they just q files or d files or both? 2) Tripple check the DNS server(s) being used for problems. 3) Do you have a lot of large mailboxes? Has the amount of email flowing in increased? 4) Review information on the Sniffer list about updating to the new service model. Also, what version of Imail, what version of Declude?John T eServices For You -Original Message- From: "David Dodell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent 2/28/2008 9:10:02 PM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] multiple simultaneous problemsAfter running Declude / Imail smoothly for years ... the last few days have been the pits (1) Multiple files showing up in the /spool/proc directory and not leaving (2) Declude is failing to make connections on RBL tests about 10 to 20% of the time. Running in debug mode will show one message running against multiple DBL tests, and then the message will show the first 5 DBL tests running, and the rest fail with "no connection" (3) IMAP4d32.exe services are running 99% of the cpu time ... (4) Multiple instances of the sniffer exe program Any thoughts on where to start ... I've rebooted, stopped services, restarted services ... works fine for about 8 hrs then starts up all over again David --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
