Re: Dozens of qmail-smtpd processes eating 100% of CPU

[Alex Kirk <alex.kirk@sourcefire.com>]

Not that I'm aware of -- the supervise scripts are stock from LWQ, and 
the script I'd mentioned that I've been running this morning to kill 
errant Qmail processes doesn't restart tcpserver.
Alex
> It never makes sense when things go badly wrong.
> But ps shows supervise time at :02, which is a long time for something 
> that essentually remains stagnent, tcpserver is at :01, which probably 
> means tcpserver just started.
> This is just my observation.
> does your supervise script loop if tcpserver fails for some reason?
>
> Alex Kirk wrote:
> > That doesn't make a lot of sense...I can't think of any reason why 
> > tcpserver would be restarting (no other processes are running under 
> > tcpserver, I'm not killing it). Could it be that my softlimit is too 
> > low, and it's somehow restarting itself? I've got memory to spare, so 
> > I wouldn't mind increasing it.
> > Alex Kirk
> > > It seems like tcpserver is being restarted while there is already a 
> > > tcpserver running.