On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 09:20:25AM +0100, Torsten Krueger wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:51, Scott St. John wrote: > > > A few weeks ago we talked about me moving a server from BSDi to Debian. As > > > luck > > > would have it that BSDi server gave out last Monday and I had to move fast > > > to replace > > > it. Knowing I can do a RH install in about 30 minutes I went the route of > > > familiar > > > territory and installed 7.2 with Sendmail/QPopper/Apache/OpenWebMail. I am > > > paying > > > for that now with a huge performance problem. I am seeing Load Averages > > > spiking > > > above 6 during the day. Hardware is a Dual P3-600 with a gig of ram on a > > > IBM Netfinity Raid 5 controller. > > Hmm - watch out for the load qpopper produces. Since the sendmail/qpopper > combination uses mbox a users mailbox is copied every time the mbox is > accessed. If you have large mailboxes (e.g. no quota an users leave mail > on server) this can produce a significant load.
<AOL/> In a former life (4+ years ago) we had to move from qpopper to cucipop for exactly this reason. Quotas help too. These days I think the servers in question are running qmail-pop3d. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Avoid gunfire in the bathroom tonight. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
