Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 16:47:13 -0700 From: "Hank Wethington" <bsd@info-logix.com> To: "BSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: inode question Message-ID: <KFEIIDCJNHBCGLAFNMJIKEDMDPAA.bsd@info-logix.com>
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I just finished setting up a mail server using qmail and a slew of other packages. It works great and today I was running tests on it to see how it would handle a load that I don't think it will ever see. During the test of sending over 3000 messages through at once to a vpop account on the system, I got an interesting error: /var: create/symlink failed, no inodes free qmail-inject: fatal: qq trouble creating files in queue (#4.3.0) after I pulled off all of the files I did it again, this time sending only 1000 at a time. After they finished sending, I waited for disk activity to stop, then sent another 1000. I did this until I hit 4000 emails sent to the same user successfully. I guess I'm trying to figure out why it would send all of them just fine if I sent them in 1000 piece bundles and not work when I sent it as 3000. Memory usage was fantastic during the process never even dipping into the swap. CPU utilization was great it never reached over 12% system usage during the whole procedure. So I'm baffled. When it was all complete, all 4000 messages the only dir larger then when I started was /var and it was only at 47% after all the disk writes, it climbed to 55% at its peak during my second set of tests. Thoughts? Hank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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