On Wednesday 11 October 2006 16:25, Terry Ford wrote: > It appears that sendmail may be causing bursts of disk activity, > particularly when it's mailing a fair number of users at once. Does this > sound right? Should sendmail be placing a strain on the disk like this?
Sendmail uses disk based spools, so it might. What does 'fair number' mean ? > With 4GB, I thought 1.2GB for CF to cache all of the stuff it caches would > be reasonable. And CF is certainly having a go at using it all. > Still using 3.23 (will upgrade soon!), set-variable = key_buffer=500M, but > "top" after running millions of queries: 224M 219M 1296 S 5.8 5.5 > 87:35 0 mysqld MySQL 3 is fairly old, considering 5 is out now :-) > Any ideas if sendmail is as stressful as it appears, how to account for > CF's total memory, or why mysql refuses to use more memory? I've not had to manage a badly performing MySQL server yet. If it's responsive I wouldn't worry to much about how much or little RAM it is sucking up. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to preemptively mesh eye-catching segments **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Linux/message.cfm/messageid:4204 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Linux/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14
