Re: [AMaViS-user] Amavis Hiccups?

> At 03:29 PM 8/24/2007, Justin Kim wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have installed and using amavisd-new for about 1 year now.
> >It is been great since the installation.
> >But I noticed sometimes that Amavis is having hiccups and during
> the hiccups
> >the email delivery is delayed.
> >Postfix is accepting lot of messages and it defers couple of thousands
> >messages during this amavis hiccup time.
>
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> What do you mean by hiccup? Is amavisd-new unable to accept
> connections from postfix? Does amavisd-new stop running and must be
> restarted? Is amavisd-new taking an unreasonably long time to
> process messages at times? Something else? Hiccup is not very
> descriptive for trouble shooting.
>
> Top output is not very useful here. Show logs. amavisd-nanny and/or
> amavisd-agent might also provide useful information, but the logs are
> the place to start.
>
>
> --
> Noel Jones
>
>

Hi again,

After I got Noel's email, I went to do my homework analyzing malilog,
googling, etc.
I couldn't get the answer but I found something.
When I meant hiccups from the previous post,
I meant one amavisd process stall or one amavisd is trying to do its job but
somehow it got stuck with one message (spam message).
Although I have 10 more amavisd instances, this one process that is stuck
with one message is stopping other instances to work properly.
I found this by looking at the top info and went into the /var/amavis/tmp/
folder.

================================================== ========================
top - 15:43:37 up 25 days, 15:11, 2 users, load average: 1.38, 2.15, 2.06
Tasks: 357 total, 2 running, 355 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 20.2% us, 4.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 72.3% id, 2.5% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.2% si
Mem: 8164752k total, 8110816k used, 53936k free, 749420k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 160k used, 2031448k free, 4290808k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
29095 amavis 16 0 181m 73m 3320 R 60 0.9 0:01.95 amavisd
(ch1-29095-01-3)
================================================== ========================

In my /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20070829T152337-29095/ ,
there are email.txt file and part/ folder.
And I looked into email.txt and the message was a spam message.
So that was stuck about 5 mins in the /var/amavis/tmp/ folder.
And then it is gone. I do not know whether that is sent to the destination
or not.

Can someone help me at this point?
Does my finding mean anything?

Thank you in advance,

Justin




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