Let's start with an oops, that messages was sent on Thursday.
The queue spiked at 320k messages, then we discovered a name server was down, causing an nfs authentication problem, which caused homedirs to not be deliverable, causing the queue to reach DOS levels, causing the spamfilter to switch off, causing mail not to be delivered...
With a little careful loading (beefed up the VM config) we were able to deliver all but 25k in 17 hours. I guess this request was one of the 25k.
-----Original Message----- From: lists-centos [mailto:replies-lists-a1z2-centos@listmail.innovate.net] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 20:20 To: Jason Pyeron Subject: Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq
you should start by looking at your maillog to see what's going on. you should also check to see if you have a sendmail/postfix (whatever your mta - i'm assuming sendmail because postfix holds its outbound queue differently) queue process running.
sendmail
entries in the maillog will help you figure out if legit mail is backing up, and hints as to why, or if you're a spam "gateway". if the latter, you need to look into the source. e.g., are you an open relay or do you have web pages that spammers are using.
it's possible that you have a lot of orphaned df* (data) files, but a rather large number.
this is just a start ...
[by the way, you don't need a "find" to feed to a "wc". a "wc -l qf*" in the mqueue directory would do the trick.]
Too many thingies on the cmd line error.
- Rick
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Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:05:45 AM -0500 From: Jason Pyeron jpyeron@pdinc.us To: 'CentOS mailing list' centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Huge mailq
Where should we start on preventing this type of problem?
[root@server34 mqueue]# find | wc -l 185259
-jason
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