Are you sure, that the mails in the queue are "real" mails - and not just bounces for spam, which is not deliverable?
It they're bounces... they'll dissappear from the queue in 4 days :-) Cheers, Viktor On Friday 24 October 2003 13:57, Marcel Prisi wrote: > Hi all ! > > We have a strange trouble with an "old" postfix server with about 1200 > accounts running on Trustix Linux 1.5 with kernel 2.2.2x . > > The thing works, but the mail queue has about 17000 mail in and every > mail takes about 10 hours to be processed ... the load is not high and > disks have no big activity, but the queue doesn't get smaller, as if it > had to have about 17000 mails in. I tried "postfix flush", "postfix stop > ; postfix start" tuning /proc/sys/fs/file-max and other stuff with no > success. > > It seems to be related to a trouble with a full /var partition, which > has now enough room. > > The local admin told me the only successful way was a "rm -f incoming/*" > ... have you better idea ?? > > Thanks > > ---------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/ ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
