Date: Tue, 10 Feb 98 22:03:08 -0700 From: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com> To: "Doug White" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@clicknet.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help, popper is beating my mail server to death. Message-ID: <199802110557.VAA00721@gromit.pinpt.com>
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*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
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