Re: master mail problems -- help needed
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 04:39:46PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> When an exim mailserver is really bogged down under mail load, attempts
> can be made even less often.
It's ben pointed out to me that my mail through master is also bouncing
at times. I also have an IPv6 MX, so it could be related. However,
another datapoint (and relevant to the above):
top - 07:38:12 up 293 days, 15:52, 8 users, load average: 5.92, 5.39, 5.12
Tasks: 288 total, 6 running, 280 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 29.9% user, 18.9% system, 0.5% nice, 50.7% idle
Mem: 2069780k total, 1981968k used, 87812k free, 268648k buffers
Swap: 2000084k total, 35744k used, 1964340k free, 1132708k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
18353 clamav 16 0 19560 18m 9672 R 33.9 0.9 12:20.88 clamd
18120 clamav 16 0 19560 18m 9672 R 30.9 0.9 55:56.78 clamd
18360 clamav 16 0 19560 18m 9672 R 30.9 0.9 2:33.51 clamd
31657 clamav 15 0 19560 18m 9672 R 30.9 0.9 8:39.73 clamd
8251 clamav 15 0 19560 18m 9672 R 14.7 0.9 0:02.64 clamd
14004 wouter 16 0 1416 1416 1060 R 10.3 0.1 0:00.15 top
13930 Debian-e 10 0 3184 3176 2820 S 4.4 0.2 0:00.06 exim4
14010 root 11 0 3184 3176 3036 S 4.4 0.2 0:00.05 exim4
4562 root 9 0 31148 30m 8564 S 1.5 1.5 279:23.32 named
18357 clamav 9 0 19560 18m 9672 S 1.5 0.9 27:43.19 clamd
12311 www-data 9 0 4936 4160 3968 S 1.5 0.2 0:00.02 apache
12826 www-data 9 0 0 0 0 Z 1.5 0.0 0:00.02 apache <defunct>
14030 root 16 0 3164 3156 3036 S 1.5 0.2 0:00.01 exim4
14031 Debian-e 16 0 3232 3224 3052 D 1.5 0.2 0:00.01 exim4
1 root 8 0 472 440 420 S 0.0 0.0 243:01.96 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.57 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:13.91 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 19 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.97 ksoftirqd_CPU1
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 3029:45 kswapd
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 60:08.08 bdflush
That's on master. I've been watching it for about 5 minutes, and never
saw the load drop below 3.80-ish.
Could it be that master is simply imploding on the amount of mail
received?
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-.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ / --/ ---/ .-./ .../ ./ /
../ .../ / ---/ ..-/ -/ -../ .-/ -/ ./ -../ / -/ ./ -.-./ ..../ -./ ---/ .-../
---/ --./ -.--/ / .-/ -./ -.--/ .--/ .-/ -.--/ .-.-.-/ / ...-.-/
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