Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:43:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com> Cc: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@clicknet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help, popper is beating my mail server to death. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980211104226.1284O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802110557.VAA00721@gromit.pinpt.com>
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > >> 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. <grin> That's why the UO has 1 meg mail quotas. Even with a full maibox, the main mail server can take a while. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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