Re: [Exim] Why aren't my queues working?

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 05:30, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Brett Thorson wrote:
> > I type in
> > exiwhat
> > 4584 running queue: waiting for children of 4585
> > 4588 delivering 1896lS-0000Gt-00: waiting for a remote delivery
> > subprocess to finish 8833 running queue: waiting for 188igd-0004yZ-00
> > (8834)
> > 8834 delivering 188igd-0004yZ-00 (queue run pid 8833)
> > 9723 delivering 1896lS-0000Gt-00 to aix10.segi.ulg.ac.be
> > [139.165.32.133] (user@host,removed.for.the.innocanet.net) 21241 daemon:
> > -q5m, listening for SMTP
> >
> >
> > That looks to me as if there are 2 queue runners going.
>
> Yes. No problem with that. Presumably the first one is tied up with a
> message that is taking a very long time to deliver.
>
> > I have 4 messages in the queue. The 2 above that are being processed,
> > and 2 more that are waiting.
> >
> > If I have
> >
> > queue_run_max = 2
> >
> > shouldn't I still have 4 messages in my queue after a
> > 2002-11-05 13:32:15 Start queue run: pid=11533
>
> Yes, but I don't understand why you think you don't. You should be able
> to see them with "exim -bp" (aka mailq).


I was actually running eximon and exim -bp to verify that one view wasn't
incorrect. I saw 4 messages before. and then 2 messages afterwards. Those
messages disappeared. The two that I thought would still be there.

--Brett