When you run top, do you find that most of the CPU time is being taken by dbmail-pop3d itself, or by mysqld? In the latter case, you may do well to tune the database a bit in my.cnf, and to add the indices posted to the list a couple of times. If it's pop3d.. umm... sounds bad, post more info!
Aaron On 16 May 2003, Jason Burfield wrote: > I have searched through back messages and found one thread with someone > having huge load averages caused by dbmail-smtpd. > > Well...I'm getting HUGE load averages with dbmail-pop3d. > > For whatever reason the load average on my box is jumping up to well > over 7.00 after dbmail-pop3d has been running for a few minutes. > > This is on a dual 2.4ghz Xeon with 4 gigs of RAM...so I can't for the > life of me, imagine what would cause that type of load. > > This mail server went up last night...so in the past 24 hours it has > accepted something around 2000 messages. We do have lots of clients > checking mail frequently, around every 5 minutes, however, I wouldn't > think that would cause this type of load. > > I'm running dmail-1.1, MySQL and Postfix on Linux. (RH 8) > > As an example, at this very moment the box has a load average of 5.62. > There are currently 6 clients connected to the pop server. > > Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this? We don't have that > many clients, only about 300 email clients...what type of load should be > expected from that type of base? > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > > -- Jason > > -- Jason Burfield > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > Dbmail@dbmail.org > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >
