Re: exim performance hint

2008-10-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:07:36AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 05:19:05PM -0500, Lance Tagliapietra wrote: > > > Looking closer, exim is run by a cron task periodically, to try to > > re-send email that could not be sent, or was queued for some reason. If > > the mes

Re: exim performance hint

2008-09-30 Thread richard
Ingo, I cleaned out my whole /var/spool tonight on my Fedora box. Lots of print jobs from months ago were abandoned there. It was good to clean the spool folders out. Not something I regularly attend to. So a cleanout script run by cron would be a great idea. Richard (the guy with a few SE/3

Re: exim performance hint

2008-09-30 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 05:19:05PM -0500, Lance Tagliapietra wrote: > Looking closer, exim is run by a cron task periodically, to try to > re-send email that could not be sent, or was queued for some reason. If > the message could not be delivered, it sits in the queue. Due to a > mis-configurat

exim performance hint

2008-09-30 Thread Lance Tagliapietra
Hello, Summary: clean exim dead letter database For the past several months I have seen my Debian 68K system run slower and slower. Checking is ps ax showed that every 5 minutes or so, exim would be running for about 5 minutes. I mean, I thought I got a low of spam, but.. Looking closer, exim