At 11:07 PM 12/18/96 GMT, Obi-Wan wrote:
I just today turned loose on our ISP sendmail 8.8.4 with
FEATURE(local_procmail) for a local mailer. We run Solaris 2.5
and procmail 3.11pre4. We've had numerous complaints about mail
being delivered slowly or sporadically (even local->local mail).
A _very_ cursory examination seems to indicate that procmail's
locks are causing this behavior.
[ Deletia ]
I can only say that I just witnessed something similar with procmail in the
last hour or so, and I resolve it to being locks as well. But, the problem
wasn't with procmail, but with my installation of it. Luckily, the log file
showed procmail fighting an inability to establish a lock being the
culprit. I re-downloaded the tarball (we have multiple architectures here,
and the current instantiation was littered with gcc'isms), unrolled it, did
a 'make init' followed by 'make install-suid' and all the lock problems
went away, and performance improved dramatically. Alas, it was no longer
waiting for the lock to timeout.
This was with procmail 3-10.
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