yep .... thanx to all for your help on this issue. amit
--- Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amit Sharma wrote: > > but the problem is that at times my server access > is > > so slow and when i killall imapd , it seems as if > > server is back to normal. i guess current version > of > > imap is not able to bear the burden of 70-80 imap > > users!!? > > > > Ok. Then try this - keep a "top" running in a > console, and when the > server becomes real slow, note down the following: > 1. load average: All the three values > 2. Memory: The av, used and free values > 3. Swap: The av, used and free values > > Also I hope that you are not running X on the same > poor server. > > One more thing, when all your company people are > using imap and > especially the standard /var/spool/user mbox files, > encourage them to > keep their inboxes small. I have seen people having > inboxes 50-100MB > big, and the computers go crazy trying to read > through these huge mbox > files for all the users who have imap open. Also > mail deliveries to such > huge files slow the system down. > > Do one thing, run the command "ls -lSr > /var/spool/mail" and give us the > sizes of the top five largest mboxes in the system. > > - Sandip > > -- > Sandip Bhattacharya > http://www.sandipb.net > sandip at puroga.com > Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. > http://www.puroga.com > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
