Postfix Sluggish

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Fri Nov 4 17:09:31 UTC 2005


Am Fr, den 04.11.2005 schrieb Ki Song um 17:43:

> For some reason, Postfix is very slow today on my server.
> 
> I tried the following:
> - mqueue. I wanted to see if there was a huge backlog of queued messages.
> There were none.
> - top. The cpu usage is minimal: less than 1% most of the time.
> 
> What other things should I look for?

Test you DNS. Often a slow resolver causes slow mail processing.

> Should I try and reboot the server to see if that help?

If you can afford the downtime you may try this route. But would that
answer you what is going on actually? I feel it is better to investigate
the causes.

Alexander


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