Php-fpm and gateway timeouts caused by SMTP notification backlog

[awnz]

Hi,

I've had a problem with the webGUI being unresponsive which I traced down to php-fpm trying to send a squillion SMTP admin notifications to an SMTP server IP address which no longer exists (we moved subnets the other month).

(So if anyone on 2.3.x is troubleshooting php-fpm locking up on you, that's something to check - interestingly this didn't affect me while on 2.2.x so I didn't notice the SMTP configuration issue for some time)

Now I've pointed it to the correct SMTP server, it's trying to send a backlog of thousands of notifications about a faulty gateway. It's DoSing the SMTP server and I had to disable SMTP notifications.

My question is: where are notifications cached, so I can clear the backlog and re-enable SMTP notifications? I can't find them :(

Thanks,

Andrew

[Gertjan]

@awnz:

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My question is: where are notifications cached, so I can clear the backlog and re-enable SMTP notifications? I can't find them :(
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Try /tmp/notices (according to /etc/notices.inc)