Mailq output error

[zmailer <lzmailer@pert.com.ar>]

Hi,
we are running ZMailer scheduler (2.99.55 #1:
on 3 similar solaris 2.6

On one of them  after a couple of minutes running,
mailq starts giving negative numbers for the number of messages in transport

queue. The other 2 schedulers keep running without problem.

The only difference is that this zmailer only does local delivery an all
outgoing to
a routedb defined smarthost.

This negative number decrements almost continuously.. see the report at the
end.

The same thing happened with 2.99.54p1.

Any idea?

Thanks.

By the way, Matti, we have almost no problem running 54 router with 55
scheduler,
ta's and smtpserver. The only thing we had to do is add a link from
/etc/zmailer.conf
to $MAILSHARE. All .55 programs core dumped without it. Thanks!

MAILQ -sQQQ output... (same with any Q combination)

2 entries in router queue: processing
0 messages in transport queue: idle
Kids: 13  Idle: 13  Msgs:   0  Thrds:   0  Rcpnts:    0  Uptime: 24 sec
Msgs in 13 out 13 stored 0 Rcpnts in 13 out 13 stored 0
....
17 entries in router queue: processing
3 messages in transport queue: working
Kids: 17  Idle: 16  Msgs:   3  Thrds:   1  Rcpnts:    3  Uptime: 668 sec
Msgs in 487 out 484 stored 3 Rcpnts in 552 out 549 stored 3
...
2 entries in router queue: processing
23 messages in transport queue: working
Kids: 17  Idle: 17  Msgs:  -1  Thrds:   0  Rcpnts:    0  Uptime: 689 sec
Msgs in 516 out 515 stored 4294967295 Rcpnts in 580 out 580 stored 0
...
6 entries in router queue: processing
21 messages in transport queue: working
Kids: 17  Idle: 16  Msgs:   1  Thrds:   1  Rcpnts:    2  Uptime: 708 sec
Msgs in 533 out 530 stored 1 Rcpnts in 603 out 601 stored 2
...
5 entries in router queue: processing
17 messages in transport queue: working
Kids: 17  Idle: 17  Msgs:  -1  Thrds:   0  Rcpnts:    0  Uptime: 728 sec
Msgs in 557 out 556 stored 4294967295 Rcpnts in 627 out 627 stored 0
...
2 entries in router queue: processing
6 messages in transport queue: working
Kids: 17  Idle: 17  Msgs:  -2  Thrds:   0  Rcpnts:    0  Uptime: 1034 sec
Msgs in 746 out 744 stored 4294967294 Rcpnts in 849 out 849 stored 0
...
1 entry in router queue: processing
2 messages in transport queue: working
Kids: 17  Idle: 16  Msgs:   0  Thrds:   1  Rcpnts:    2  Uptime: 1054 sec
Msgs in 760 out 756 stored 0 Rcpnts in 887 out 873 stored 14
...

This samples where taken during off-hours, after a day this number go as low
as
a couple of hundreds...

Nicolás Baumgarten
Pert Consultores 
nico@pert.com.ar