Dear friends,
since the tremendous Y2K bug has only been a flop,
I ask you a serius question.
----- alphaserver 1000 running 4.0d last patch -----
give a look at the following ps output:
ps -ale | grep procmail
80008001 R N 1001 1402 6048 0.0 63 19 0 24K nxmbloc ?? 0:00.12 procmail
80008001 R N 1001 2189 12377 0.0 63 19 0 16K nxmbloc ?? 0:00.13 procmail
80008001 R N 1001 5953 40 0.0 63 19 0 24K * ?? 0:01.16 procmail
80008001 R N 1001 6842 2443 0.0 63 19 0 24K nxmbloc ?? 0:00.99 procmail
80008001 R N 1001 7225 5172 0.0 63 19 0 24K nxmbloc ?? 0:00.12 procmail
8001 R N 1001 10866 2189 0.0 63 19 0 0K - ?? 0:00.00 procmail
80008001 R N 1001 11999 1393 0.0 63 19 0 24K nxmbloc ?? 0:00.29 procmail
80008001 R N 1001 15190 17295 0.0 63 19 0 24K nxmbloc ?? 0:02.53 procmail
80008001 IWN 1001 23705 12252 0.0 63 19 0 8K * ?? 0:00.33 procmail
80008001 R N 1001 29121 10198 0.0 63 19 0 24K nxmbloc ?? 0:00.71 procmail
what does it mean NXMBLOC ?
ps aux | grep procmail
lele 29121 0.0 0.0 3.52M 24K ?? R N 11:06:14 0:00.71 /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yf-
lele 1402 0.0 0.0 3.49M 24K ?? R N 11:24:14 0:00.12 /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yf-
lele 2189 0.0 0.0 3.49M 16K ?? R N 10:11:23 0:00.13 /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yf-
lele 5953 0.0 0.0 3.52M 24K ?? R N 11:17:52 0:01.16 /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yf-
lele 10866 0.0 0.0 3.49M 0K ?? R N 10:11:23 0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yf-
lele 6842 0.0 0.0 3.52M 24K ?? R N 11:20:46 0:00.99 /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yf-
lele 15190 0.0 0.0 3.52M 24K ?? R N 11:17:51 0:02.53 /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yf-
lele 7225 0.0 0.0 3.49M 24K ?? R N 10:57:21 0:00.12 /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yf-
lele 23705 0.0 0.0 3.49M 8K ?? IWN Jan 14 0:00.33 /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yf-
lele 11999 0.0 0.0 3.52M 24K ?? R N 10:55:01 0:00.29 /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yf-
mailq says that many mail are in queue waiting for procmail to process
them. From ps we see that the procmail process are in the unknown (to
me) state of nxmbloc.
What can I do to sole the empasse?
Thank you very much from Italy,
Emanuele
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Received on Tue Jan 18 2000 - 11:14:38 NZDT