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Subject: Re: cleanup daemon won't die
From: Tin Le (tinle.org)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 14:33:02 CDT

You need to see what the cleanup daemons are doing.

$ strace -p procid

where procid is that of the cleanup daemon.

Tin Le 

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On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Nate wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:30:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Nate <natenetimages.com>
> To: postfix-userspostfix.org
> Subject: cleanup daemon won't die
> 
> At home I have a mail gateway that forwards (via the transport table) all
> mail to my domain to a machine on a private address. The gateway is an old
> 486 running debian linux (frozen).
> 
> I was running 19991231-pl04 and for the last few days I would get cleanup
> processes that run for hours, sometimes 3 or 4 of them. They would all
> fight for the CPU and run the CPU load up to 4 or higher, slowing the
> machine to a crawl (relative term on a 486 ;) 
> 
> Last night I upgraded to pl06, but this morning same thing, 2 cleanup
> daemons had been running all night non-stop. I ran mailq and I had no
> messages in there, so I'm not sure what's going on.
> 
> The machine doesn't deliver any mail locally, even mail for local accounts
> is forwarded on via the transport table.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how I can remedy this, or is there other
> info I need to send to the list?
> 
> --
> Nate Campi	natenetimages.com
> 
> 
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