Return-Path: Received: from mail.kindsoftware.com ([131.174.33.98] verified) by mail.tffenterprises.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.7) with ESMTP-TLS id 6868225 for cgpsa-discuss@tff.cs.caltech.edu; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:35:54 -0800 Received: from ised.org ([66.133.81.240] verified) by mail.kindsoftware.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP id 1228494 for cgpsa-discuss@mail.tffenterprises.com; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:35:51 +0100 Received: from [66.133.81.254] (account tschuldt HELO 19v8p01) by ised.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 52910 for cgpsa-discuss@mail.tffenterprises.com; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:35:50 -0600 From: "Todd Schuldt" To: "'CGPSA Discussion List'" Subject: RE: [CGPSA] crashing and defunct processes Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:35:50 -0600 Organization: Institute for Social and Economic Development Message-ID: <001f01c3af73$986595c0$fe518542@ised.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Seems fine here Daniel SuSE 9.0 Pro, CGPSA 1.2.3, CGP 4.1.8, SA 2.6, Perl 5.8.1 Todd -----Original Message----- From: CGPSA Discussion List = [mailto:cgpsa-discuss@mail.tffenterprises.com] On Behalf Of Daniel M. Zimmerman Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:41 AM To: CGPSA Discussion List Subject: Re: [CGPSA] crashing and defunct processes=20 --On m=E5ndag 17 November 2003 10.34 -0700 Jon DeLee = wrote: > Hi All, > > We have cgpsa set up on our mail server - most of the time it works = great, > however once in a while the mail queue will back up. When I check the > logs I get a ton of errors like this: > > 07:16:11.23 3 EXTFILTER(CGPSA) failed on [1381277], will retry. Error > Code=3Dexternal helper timed out > 07:16:12.09 3 EXTFILTER(CGPSA) failed on [1381295], will retry. Error > Code=3Dexternal helper timed out > 07:16:12.09 3 EXTFILTER(CGPSA) failed on [1381325], will retry. Error > Code=3Dexternal helper timed out > 07:16:12.09 3 EXTFILTER(CGPSA) failed on [1381281], will retry. Error > Code=3Dexternal helper timed out > > If I go to the helpers page and uncheck the box, the page never = refreshes > - the only way I've been able to fix this is to restart CGPro. > > I also noticed that each mail message checked spawns a new process, = and > that process then zombies out, like this: > > 24902 ? 00:00:00 cgpsa > 24903 ? 00:00:00 cgpsa > 24904 ? 00:00:00 cgpsa > 24905 ? 00:00:00 cgpsa > 24906 ? 00:00:00 cgpsa > 24907 ? 00:00:00 cgpsa > > While it doesn't seem to affect mail processing, I am concerned. = Should I > be? Hmm. Zombies. That's a bit odd, as CGPSA is supposed to clean up all its = children every time it's called. Anybody else on Linux seeing this? -Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel M. Zimmerman TFF Enterprises M/S 256-80 - Caltech http://www.tffenterprises.com/ Pasadena, California 91125 USA dmz@tffenterprises.com ----- This message is from the CGPSA Mailing List. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: .