I've had this problem. When a user zipped up 100+ MB of mp3's and was
trying to send the attachment to a university 10 MB quoted shell. As it
was trying to resend often it would need to open the file to read it, that
created lots of hard drive activity. I would suggest checking your queue
or logs for any messages that aren't sending.
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Peter Samuel wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Daniel Conlon wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I have had qmail installed on a machine with < 100 users for 6 months and all
>aspects of the installation are working correctly. However, it has recently been
>brought to my attention that the hard disk activity on the machine is
>excessive/abnormal - the disk is flat out.
> >
> > By systematically stopping processes I have established that it is qmail which is
>causing this. qmail is not under any load to speak of.
> >
> > Is this normal for qmail? If not, what could be causing this?
>
> Is it qmail-send or qmail-smtpd that is causing it?
>
> What do the logs say? (tm)
>
> What's the output of /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat run serveral times to
> see if the queue is growing rapidly?
>
>
