Hello Rodrigo,
Found the script on the coba-e archive. I probably missed that thread :)
Thanks so much for pointing it out! That was exactly what i was looking for.
Kind regards,
Gustavo
Rodrigo Ordonez Licona escreveu:
> About this part,
>
> We have a cron script running every 5 minutes to check whether this is
> happening with spamd process.
>
> It was originaly made by Michael Stauber, We use that to kill raqbackup
> runaway processses with more than 6 hours of life
>
> I cand send it to the list if you are interested,
>
> HTH
>
> Rodrigo O
> Xnet
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gustavo Silva [mailto:pseudo (at mark) zbronx.com]
> Sent: Martes, 10 de Julio de 2007 08:18 a.m.
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:10348] perl and openwebmail
>
> Hello Blues,
>
> I was wondering if anyone had this problem, and found a solution to "fight"
> it :P This situation rarely happens, but i like to keep the load as low as
> possible, so when this happens it is a pain to me.
>
> Here's the description.
>
> Some client logs to openwebmail, and its one of those clients that keeps all
> the mails, spam, etc on its inbox (despite the fact we warned him countless
> times, to try to keep things as tidy as possible)
>
> Openwebmail spawns a process to read the clients mbox, and because of the
> inumerous mails the box has, takes some time, and load, to display the
> result.
>
> Client gets impatient, and clicks the refresh button. Allas, a new process
> is spawned and the load is now doubled, and tripled, and sometimes ... lets
> say things get really slow..
>
> So when the load is high, im notified, i check the server, see if the client
> is still using the service, kill unneeded processes, let it finish. Check
> the cache databases, clean it all, and we're back on track...
>
> But is there any automated solution for this? Or am i asking something
> impossible? I was thinking in doing something in cron that would
> periodically check if a perl process is running for more than X time, then
> kill -9 it... But maybe thats too extreme..
> Any directions, tips would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Server Setup:
> Centos4.5
> BQ manually installed
> OpenWebmail 2.52
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gustavo
>
>
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