Re: incoming queue behaves like a blackhole

From: Aurelien Barrere (no email)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 05:08:08 EDT

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    Greg Hackney wrote:

    > Aurelien,
    >
    > A couple of thoughts... are most of the messages mailing-list bounces
    > that
    > get pushed through your perl bounce engine? If so, I see that they
    > are limited
    > to one-at-a-time via "local_destination_concurrency_limit = 1".
    > Could that be a
    > bottleneck ?
    > relay=local, delay=357272, status=sent (delivered to
    > command: /opt/bounceengine/bounces.pl

    It could be a bottleneck but Perl script can only accept one request
    once time, isn't it?
    Do you suggest me to increase these value or simply comment it ?

    >
    >
    > Also, you don't mention what hardware or OS you are running. On some
    > really older systems, I've
    > seen slowdowns in Postfix delivery after directory sizes and numbers
    > grew huge for the queue area (which
    > was fixed by recreated the queue directories and moving the files back
    > into it).

    Originaly this conf of postfix was hosted in a old box but since I
    migrate postfix in a new machine box i didn't change all previous value
    made by my predecessor. This can explain a little bit the slowness?

    > hash_queue_depth = 2

    HW:HP365
    Postfix:Last Stable release
    OS:Linux RH FC3 2.6.9-1.667smp

    > --
    > Greg Hackney
    > Cypress, Texas
    >
    >
    > Aurelien Barrere wrote:
    > relay=local, delay=357272, status=sent (delivered to command:
    > /opt/bounceengine/bounces.pl
    >
    >> John Peach wrote:
    >>
    >>> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:06:18 +0200
    >>> Aurelien Barrere <> wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>> Hi all,
    >>>>
    >>>> Since one month I noticed that my queue never decreases
    >>>> I begin to panic because it s become huge like a blackhole.
    >>>> Since one month I monitored regulary the queue and it 's started at
    >>>> 278.000 and now one month after I ve got more than 6.000.000 in the
    >>>> queue !
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> ...and what do your logs tell you?
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >> Here is a snapshot (/var/log/maillog):
    >>
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/qmgr[29484]: 87FCE76C3CB2: from=<>,
    >> size=30083, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/smtpd[19036]: 506E77915EA7:
    >> client=ftl1smtp01.citco.com[208.219.172.67]
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/smtpd[17433]: 5742B7920B86:
    >> client=vg1.soc2.com[62.23.133.253]
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/cleanup[20284]: 5742B7920B86:
    >> message-id=<>
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/smtpd[18579]: 5ED037970617:
    >> client=omr-m11.mx.aol.com[64.12.138.23]
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/smtpd[17433]: 74C9E7A52E58:
    >> client=vg1.soc2.com[62.23.133.253]
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/cleanup[19606]: 506E77915EA7:
    >> message-id=<B7F244FD679C8D4E998E795B95E59DB10170F468 at syd1msex01>
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/cleanup[18644]: 74C9E7A52E58:
    >> message-id=<>
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/smtpd[16642]: connect from
    >> omr-m05.mx.aol.com[64.12.138.17]
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/local[20447]: 86115798A4C9:
    >> to=<>, orig_to=<>, relay=local,
    >> delay=357272, status=sent (delivered to command:
    >> /opt/bounceengine/bounces.pl)
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/qmgr[29484]: 86115798A4C9: removed
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/qmgr[29484]: 870D67AA4202: from=<>,
    >> size=5810, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/smtp[19165]: 87F6F7AA3F16:
    >> to=<>,
    >> relay=gateway02.mercer.com[192.12.251.37], delay=175635, status=sent
    >> (250 Message received and queued)
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/qmgr[29484]: 87F6F7AA3F16: removed
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/qmgr[29484]: 87FA6792C5E7: from=<>,
    >> size=1840, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/smtpd[19036]: disconnect from
    >> ftl1smtp01.citco.com[208.219.172.67]
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/smtpd[20252]: A3CB5798A4C9:
    >> client=www1.hagenhosting.com[63.97.115.201]
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/cleanup[19600]: 5ED037970617:
    >> message-id=<>
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/smtpd[17433]: AA2607A52FC2:
    >> client=vg1.soc2.com[62.23.133.253]
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/cleanup[19606]: AA2607A52FC2:
    >> message-id=<>
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/smtpd[16642]: BB98D7A5305A:
    >> client=omr-m05.mx.aol.com[64.12.138.17]
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/smtpd[17433]: C7A827A5322B:
    >> client=vg1.soc2.com[62.23.133.253]
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/cleanup[19605]: C7A827A5322B:
    >> message-id=<>
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/smtpd[18579]: disconnect from
    >> omr-m11.mx.aol.com[64.12.138.23]
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/local[20375]: 866CA7848BC8:
    >> to=<>, orig_to=<>, relay=local,
    >> delay=357269, status=sent (delivered to command:
    >> /opt/bounceengine/bounces.pl)
    >> Sep 1 18:08:34 bounce postfix/qmgr[29484]: 866CA7848BC8: removed
    >>
    >> ---
    >> According to me, It seems that relay=local works well and after that
    >> message is removed after being proceed by perl
    >>
    >> Hope that this snapshot can be useful...
    >> AB
    >
    >
    >
    >


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