From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 21:57:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA27814 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:57:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gromit.pinpt.com (gromit.pinpt.com [205.179.195.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27675 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:57:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schluntz@dns.pinpt.com) Received: from [206.170.30.23] (ppp-206-170-30-23.hywr01.pacbell.net [206.170.30.23]) by gromit.pinpt.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00721; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:57:12 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802110557.VAA00721@gromit.pinpt.com> Subject: Re: Help, popper is beating my mail server to death. Date: Tue, 10 Feb 98 22:03:08 -0700 x-sender: schluntz@dns.pinpt.com x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v2, June 6, 1997 From: "Sean J. Schluntz" To: "Doug White" , "Sean J. Schluntz" cc: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG *From the fingers of Doug White >> I'm using popper v.2.1.4-R3 on a FreeBSD v2.1.0-R system (I know, I need >> to upgrade ;). >> >> Recently I've noticed that checking eMail through pop3 is taking for >> ever. Especially for those of us who keep two or three days on the >> server at any one time since we are checking it from multiple systems. >> >> I noticed today that when I check mail (which now takes over 45 seconds >> to connect, realize that there is no mail and disconnect.) I also >> noticed that popper is taking up 32% of the CPU time! > >What class of machine is this? popper insists on copying the mail spool >to a temporary file and then sending that; if the disk is heavily loaded >it could slow things down. It's a P90 with a Adaptec 2940 (std, no U or W) running with two 1 gig drives, one dedicated to VAR. It currently only has 32 megs of RAM. Copying the file makes since though, I was poking around and found that one of the people who was complaining has a 13meg mail file. -Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz schluntz@pinpt.com Systems Engineer (408) 997-6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation http://www.pinpt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message