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Date:      Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:51:44 +0200
From:      Nicolas Haller <nicolas@boiteameuh.org>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The machine which does nothing
Message-ID:  <20080603155144.GC19003@boiteameuh.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080603102327.7629a042.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
References:  <20080603140219.GB19003@boiteameuh.org> <20080603102327.7629a042.wmoran@potentialtech.com>

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On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 10:23:27AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Nicolas Haller <nicolas@boiteameuh.org>:

> > Hi all,
> >=20
> > I have a very strange problem with a machine. The box have a postfix
> > which give e-mail to an amavisd-new and deliver ham to mailboxes.
> >=20
> > The problem is the mail queue grow but the machine doesn't work at full
> > capacity. CPU is 90% idle, vmstat don't see proc are waiting for
> > anything, disks are playing poker and there is a lot of RAM available.
> >=20
> > The machine have this problem under freebsd 6.3 and 7.0-RELEASE with a
> > bi-Xeon Quad core.

> amavisd and postfix do a lot of stuff.  Could be timing out on DNS or
> other networking issues.  Grab a tcpdump while it's running and see
> if any networking is taking an extraordinary amount of time.

Ho, it seems my box randomly send ICMP port unreachable packets to my DNS
server. It's an another problem. I see my box doing the DNS request,
I see my DNS server answer and, sometimes, my box send the ICMP packet.

Anyone know why my box send ICMP port unreachable?

--=20
Nicolas Haller

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