Re: Abnormal Hard Disk Activity

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 08:54:51AM +1000, Grant wrote: > 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 ha

Re: Abnormal Hard Disk Activity

2000-12-22 Thread Grant
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

RE: Abnormal Hard Disk Activity

2000-12-22 Thread Peter Samuel
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Daniel Conlon wrote: > > You have misspelled QMAILDUID. You forgot the D between L and U. > > So I did. I have corrected this and restarted qmail but 'supervise qmail-smtpd' is >still consuming lots of CPU and hard disk is still flat out. > > Thanks once again for your ass

RE: Abnormal Hard Disk Activity

2000-12-22 Thread Peter Samuel
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Daniel Conlon wrote: > > > > Please reply to the list too. That way you'll get more eyes looking at > > your problem. > > Sorry, thought I did. This time yes, last time, no :) > > > Also please wrap your lines to < 80 characters. It makes it easier to > > read. > > I hav

RE: Abnormal Hard Disk Activity

2000-12-22 Thread Daniel Conlon
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Daniel Conlon wrote: > > > > > 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 mach

RE: Abnormal Hard Disk Activity

2000-12-22 Thread Peter Samuel
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Daniel Conlon wrote: > > > 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 exces

Re: Abnormal Hard Disk Activity

2000-12-22 Thread Charles Cazabon
Daniel Conlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

Re: Abnormal Hard Disk Activity

2000-12-22 Thread Peter Samuel
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 >exc

Abnormal Hard Disk Activity

2000-12-22 Thread Daniel Conlon
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 systemat