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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Hanover.Germany.EU.net!Hamburg.Germany.EU.net!nuki.NetUSE.de!Nortorf.NetzService.DE!netzservice.de!ut From: ut@netzservice.de (Ulrich Teichert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: procmail: locking problems under FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE? Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 18:25:52 GMT Organization: private Linux leaf site Lines: 20 Message-ID: <DLE374.97C@netzservice.de> References: <4dk5cg$de2@news.cic.net> Reply-To: krypton@netzservice.de NNTP-Posting-Host: arbas.netzservice.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.misc:24981 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:12811 In <4dk5cg$de2@news.cic.net> pauls@cic.net (Paul Southworth) writes: >procmail 3.10 appears to be having locking problems on my FreeBSD 2.1.0-R >server. Until mid-December it was doing OK, but for the last few weeks it >appears that procmail is taking up to an hour to handle a local delivery. >I think procmail decided to use fcntl(2) locking. Sorry, I don't know FreeBSD, I am running linux. But I once compiled procmail on an old 68xxx SUN. Total desaster with zombie processes and deadlocks all around during the locking tests. My solution was to use only dot-locking. Maybe you could be happy with it, as I was. Uli -- Dipl. Inf. Ulrich Teichert e-mail: krypton@netzservice.de Stormweg 24 listening to: Failure (Pluto) 24539 Neumuenster, Germany Tod Ist Disco (Abwaerts)