Re: [cobalt-users] [Raq 3] [qube 3 ]Sendmail quits responding problem

["Phil Lewis" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Message: 3
>>Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:35:59 -0400 (EDT)
>>From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: Cobalt Users List <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] [Raq 3] Sendmail quits responding problem
>>Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>>On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Joseph R Brennskag wrote:

>> Hello all...
>>
>> I have been trying to work through a problem I am having with sendmail.
>> Sendmail will stop responding once the number of child processes reaches
12.
>> When I run the command 'ps -aux' to check the open processes, I will see
a
>> number (usually 10 or 12) of 'stalled' or open sendmail processes like
the
>> following:
>>
>>
>> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
>>
>> root      1170  0.0  1.0  2368 1332 ?        S    09:52   0:00 sendmail:
>> server rmny-stat-t05.citlink.net [170.215.147.5] cmd
>>
>> My question is how do I interpret what is happening on this line? This
will
>> be repeated several times at different times and the process never
closes.
>> A review of the mail log reveals that there is no one checking mail from
>> that IP at that time nor sending mail at that time.  It is a customer's
IP
>> address. I have done a search but cannot find how to interpret that
command.
>>
>> I know that I can increase the number of child processes allowed in
>> sendmail.cf, but since these processes don't die it will not help.

>The sendmail processes don't always close immeditately,
>check "netstat -tupan | grep sendmail" (no "")
>see what the status is of those connections

>Gerald

Hey, Gerald / Joseph:

I didn't look at this before, but I am having a similar experience on a
Qube3; I have LOTS of processes who's status is S (is that really stalled in
the sense of hung up?)  In addition, look at squid:

USER     PID   %CPU %MEM  VSZ  RSS  TTY      STAT START   TIME     COMMAND
squid    10319 96.8 50.3 67108 64300 ?       R    Aug22   24782:23
(squid) -D -f /etc/squid/squid.conf

This is with a 55 user e-mail, no web hosting.  Should I be concerned about
this??

Worried,

Phil