Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:41:16PM -0400, Michael Sprague wrote:
> [...]
>> by now. An strace doesn't show anything useful except that the process
>> isn't doing much of anything:
>>
>> strace -f -p 29676
>> Process 29676 attached - interrupt to quit
>> select(10, [9], NULL, NULL, {2177, 130000}
>>
>> it looks like it's waiting for something, but how do I determine what?
>> This is becoming a big issue as I have to kill exim once in a while to
>> clean things up but it will eventually fill up again.
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers.
>
> use lsof or similar to identify -- in this case -- file
> descriptor #9 (presumably a socket or pipe), and see what
> clues that gives you. Connect to the process with gdb and
> get a backtrace, to see where it's getting stuck.
How could I forget about the power of lsof. :(
lsof showed it was stuck waiting for spamd. I know where the issue is
now. Thanks for your help.
mikeS
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