From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 19:55:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01297 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:55:41 -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 TAA01126 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:55:12 -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 TAA00341; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:54:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:54:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Sean J. Schluntz" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help, popper is beating my mail server to death. In-Reply-To: <34E0C4DD.4708607E@clicknet.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'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