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> Fernando Costa de Almeida wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm having some problems trying to upgrade my vpopmail 5.2
> to 5.4.0. The
> > compilation goes well (no errors at this stage), but after the
> > instalation, just a few minutes later, the load of the
> server begins to
> > get high, very high... :-(. When issuing a top, I see a lot
> of process
> > of vdelivermail eating all cpu resources:
> >
>
> I bet you now have quota support enabled, and you did not
> before.
Actually, I already had quota support enabled, but just for user
accounts, not for the entire domain.
> That means that the first time vdelivermail attempts to deliver mail
to an
> account it must scan all the existing mail to determine the
> file space
> being used.
Can the new feature of domain quota be causing this behaviour
too? Although I had enabled the domain quota support, I did not set any
domain quota yet. Even in this case, will vpopmail still scan my domains
in order to calculate these disk usages?
>
> You can either disable quota support, or just live with it. Once
> everyone has received their first new email their disk usage
> information
> will be cached, and the number of full directory scans will
> go way down.
>
> It is bad at first because every new message is to a user
> without cached
> disk usage information.
>
> Rick
>
