From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 16:47:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net (adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net [63.194.112.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 918A237B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 16:47:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@info-logix.com) Received: (qmail 11341 invoked from network); 9 May 2001 23:47:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO falcon) (192.168.1.76) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 9 May 2001 23:47:51 -0000 From: "Hank Wethington" To: "BSD" Subject: inode question Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 16:47:13 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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