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Mail server CPU usage 99.9 % (?) and will not respond to restrart

J Cole

Basic Pleskian
Hello,
The mail not working

Mail server CPU usage 99.9 % (?) and will not respond to restrart.
Also SMTP Server (Postfix) will not start

CPU GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2603 0 @ 1.80GHz
Version Parallels Plesk Panel v11.0.9_build110120608.16 os_CentOS 6
OS CentOS 6.3 (Final)

Please help.
Regadrd
 
There could be so many different reasons for high CPU, please check the above article.

Does this happen on specific time of the day? Is high CPU present the whole day?

With this many informations you gave us, we can't do anything at all and you didn't even try to investigate a real cause of the problem.
 
Hello, it will not respond to service /etc/init.d/qmail restart
Also am unable get into the log:

usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog: Permission denied

Mail server CPU usage 99.9 % (?) and will not respond to restrart. It started off on on, now t remains at 99%
for a day now.
 
How do I stop the server of send these mail, it sent ablout 100 per day:

Dr.Web (R) update details:
Update server: http://update.msk.drweb.com/unix/500
Update has begun at Sat Feb 2 09:00:01 2013
Update has finished at Sat Feb 2 09:00:06 2013

Following files has been updated:
/var/drweb/bases/drwtoday.vdb
/var/drweb/bases/dwntoday.vdb
/var/drweb/bases/dwrtoday.vdb
/var/drweb/updates/timestamp
 
All turned off yet the mail: Mail server CPU usage 997%
SpamAssassin
Parallels Premium Antivirus
Kaspersky Antivirus

SMTP Server (Postfix) <-- will not start
IMAP/POP3 Server (Courier-IMAP)
 
How do I loacte the MAILQOEUE FOLDER IN PLUSK

The probem is, according out tech, is in the mailq mq or mqueue.
Too much MAIL in the MQ, which cannot be sent. Client forward their mail to email account that does not active..

[root@ns2 ~]# mailq
2623 Kbytes in 923 Requests.



Today we had over 3500 reuests but because I remove some client forward request
is now
2623 Kbytes in 923 Requests.

wE TRY [root@ns2 ~]# locate mq
and
[root@ns2 ~]# locate mqueue
But cannot find the file to flush it.

Where do I loacte the MAILQOEUE FOLDER?
 
I just replied to postings and forgot to ask: I am running XP and wonder if it would make any difference when switching to Windows 7.
Does anyone know if the same unbearable not responding situation is present when running Windows 7 as well?

Thank you
 
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