[ctw] Re: SMTP doesn't always disconnect with latest ASSP version?

  • From: TR Shaw <tshaw@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: ctw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:22:12 -0400

On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Brett Gaspers wrote:

> I'm running the latest ASSP version (1.9.1.8) and noticed recently
> that there seems to be a persistent SMTP connection (according to the
> EIMS connection statistics). The ASSP SMTP connections window doesn't
> show any active SMTP connections. The number of current connections in
> EIMS is always less than the peak, but never goes back to zero.
> 
> When this is going on, the server CPU is getting hammered by perl (50%
> utilization), when nothing should be happening. Quitting EIMS causes
> the perl usage to temporarily go away (and resets current SMTP
> connections to zero), but then it comes back later with the same
> symptoms.
> 
> Any ideas what is going on? The only SMTP hosts in the host list are
> my mail server IP and 127.0.0.1, both whitelisted. I've played around
> with the SMTP timeouts in ASSP and EIMS, but nothing seems to help.
> I'm kind of suspicious that the loopback address may be the culprit,
> since the number of connections shown in the host list is vastly less
> for this than for the mail server IP.
> 

Brett,

I don't see that here.  Maybe a mail loop?  I'm on 1.9.1.9

Tom

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