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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Hi Folks,

Maybe somebody can help me diagnose this:

- our server went wonky the other day, starting with huge load spikes 
that I think came from a DDoS attack, but also might have been a new 
kind of spam jamming up our spam filter (lot of disk i/o from amavisd-new)

- it backed up mail - lots of stuff just queued up, going nowhere

- I have the load back under control, but....

i) it seems like a lot of list traffic has stalled - some queues are 
pretty big (auth, msg), while there's nothing in the moderation or 
outgoing queues

ii) sympa.pl seems to be running a heavy load, then it dies

I'm wondering two things:
i.  Is Sympa choking on one particular message - and if so, how to 
figure out which one it is?
ii. Is there a way to prompt Sympa to process it's queues (akin to a 
postfix flush)?

Any help would be very much appreciated - I have list owners breathing 
down my neck.  Sigh...

Thank you very much,

Miles Fidelman


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