Re: Maildrop issues

2013-10-18 Thread Mark Berry
On 18 October 2013 16:20, Wietse Venema wrote: > Viktor Dukhovni: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 03:15:49PM +0100, Mark Berry wrote: > > > > > However at other times they can take 30 minutes or more to all go. > > > > Slow cleanup(8) processing or disk I/O contention. Another > > possibility is a s

Re: Maildrop issues

2013-10-18 Thread Mark Berry
On 18 October 2013 15:26, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 03:15:49PM +0100, Mark Berry wrote: > > > However at other times they can take 30 minutes or more to all go. > > Slow cleanup(8) processing or disk I/O contention. Another > possibility is a syslog daemon configured to do

Re: Maildrop issues

2013-10-18 Thread Wietse Venema
Viktor Dukhovni: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 03:15:49PM +0100, Mark Berry wrote: > > > However at other times they can take 30 minutes or more to all go. > > Slow cleanup(8) processing or disk I/O contention. Another > possibility is a syslog daemon configured to do synchronous writes > for every

Re: Maildrop issues

2013-10-18 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 03:15:49PM +0100, Mark Berry wrote: > However at other times they can take 30 minutes or more to all go. Slow cleanup(8) processing or disk I/O contention. Another possibility is a syslog daemon configured to do synchronous writes for every log entry (stresses the disk an

Maildrop issues

2013-10-18 Thread Mark Berry
Hi All, Hoping someone can help me out with a bit of advice. I have a custom script that calls postfixs sendmail to send approx 3k emails, and its quick enough that they can all inject into postfixs maildrop queue in under a minute - happy days. Now, in some cases the emails all go into the acti