Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:54:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@clicknet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help, popper is beating my mail server to death. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210195424.29893m-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34E0C4DD.4708607E@clicknet.com>
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > 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. 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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