I have many errors of this type in my logs:

2 * postfix/pipe[21511]: BC8DD3356A: to=<*****@******>, relay=dovecot, delay=1001, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-rc2/libexec/dovecot/deliver")

My command time limit is 1000s in postfix (more than 15 minutes)

After many check, I found that a lots of this error is not really an error.

The mail is delivered in the mailbox, but postfix send an error message. Like if Dovecot LDA process dont exit correctly after sending a mail.

Do you know this bug ?

As workaround i set the command time limit to 1400s but this is too long for our customer. They need in time service.

We use an NFS server as storage for all our mail.

Output of nfstat:

Server nfs v3: null getattr setattr lookup access readlink 1 0% 744955962 21% 34845109 1% 397981329 11% 818838045 24% 0 0% read write create mkdir symlink mknod 649838729 19% 502171416 14% 29188492 0% 301741 0% 0 0% 0 0% remove rmdir rename link readdir readdirplus 54138192 1% 19903 0% 30702957 0% 27796623 0% 1294453 0% 84457031 2% fsstat fsinfo pathconf commit 48529 0% 31463 0% 0 0% 11339977 0%

Output of iostat:

Linux 2.4.27-3-686-smp (data.clm.net4all.ch) 21. 07. 06

cpu-moy: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle 0,16 0,00 1,65 0,00 98,19

Device: tps Blk_lus/s Blk_�crits/s Blk_lus Blk_�crits scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 165,50 310,46 617,07 1800983948 3579692632 scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 165,48 309,32 617,06 1794404866 3579616544 scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 0,02 1,13 0,01 6579064 76088

Thanks for your answers,

-- Net4all S.A. Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer@net4all.ch