Dave Sill <MaxFreedom@sws5.ctd.ornl.gov> wrote in message news:<wx0he5n3ff8.fsf@sws5.ornl.gov>...
> cferchoff@accesscomm.ca (Curtis) writes:
>
> > I've inherited a mail server at my work that is sending mail very
> > slowly. It takes 2-3 minutes to send a message, and when I check the
> > log, it is a 2mb file that has a number and then "alert: cannot start:
> > qmail-send is already running" for the whole log.
> >
> > We have about 50 mailboxes on this server, but only about a dozen are
> > accessed on a "regular" basis.
> >
> > The server is running Redhat 6.1, and qmail. I have very limited
> > experience with Linux and Qmail, so if someone could give me a hand
> > with getting this problem resolved, it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> What does "ps -ef|grep qmail" say?

This is what I get:

> ps -ef|grep qmail
root 11724 11721 0 00:00 ? 00:00:00 supervise qmail-send
root 11726 11721 0 00:00 ? 00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
qmails 11728 11724 0 00:00 ? 00:00:02 qmail-send
qmaill 11729 11725 0 00:00 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s25000
qmaill 11730 11727 0 00:00 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s25000
qmaild 11731 11726 0 00:00 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -P -v -
root 11734 11728 0 00:00 ? 00:00:00 qmail-lspawn |dot-forward .forwa
qmailr 11735 11728 0 00:00 ? 00:00:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq 11736 11728 0 00:00 ? 00:00:00 qmail-clean
qmaild 12697 11731 0 07:01 ? 00:00:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
qmailq 12698 12697 0 07:02 ? 00:00:00 bin/qmail-queue
root 12703 12689 2 07:02 ? 00:00:00 sh -c (ps -ef|grep qmail) 2>&1
root 12704 12703 0 07:02 ? 00:00:00 sh -c (ps -ef|grep qmail) 2>&1
root 12706 12704 0 07:02 ? 00:00:00 grep qmail