From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 10:58:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22463 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:58:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22441 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:58:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01372; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:43:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:43:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Sean J. Schluntz" cc: "Sean J. Schluntz" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help, popper is beating my mail server to death. In-Reply-To: <199802110557.VAA00721@gromit.pinpt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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