On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:33:11AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Johann Spies wrote:
>
> > While exim -bpc shows:
> >
> > 3557
> >
> > One line in the output of mailq | exiqsumm shows:
> >
> > 4269 34MB 24h 1m ma2.sun.ac.za
> >
> > How do I reconcile those two?
>
> By deeper investigation. I don't expect anyone on this list can help
> without further information. Was there a timing effect here? Seems
> unlikely, but I note that at least one message has arrived within the
> last minute, so maybe a whole pile did, after you ran -bpc?
No they were within a few seconds of each other.
> But otherwise, you need to do more testing. For example:
>
> . Run -bpc and -bp in quick succession, saving the output. Check whether
> they agree sufficiently. (By "sufficiently" I mean taking into account
> the fact that messages are arriving and departing all the time.)
> If not, let me know or post more info.
They did not differ much. Seems OK.
> . Run exiqsumm on the saved output from -bp and see if it agrees. If
> not, see if you can find the bug in exiqsumm and post it. If not, send
> me the -bp output and I'll take a look.
I got the same result: there were many more deliveries to be made to
ma2.sun.ac.za that were in the queue. (We have a problem with mail
delivery at that machine at the moment.)
I think Ollie Cook's answer explains this difference.
Thanks. Your questions helped me to build better diagnostic skills.
Regards
Johann
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