On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:26:41PM +0200, Nicolas Deslions wrote:
> it's REALLY slow... i have a lot of system ressources free and not much
> processes running... strange...
Unfortunately all the memory and all the CP in the world isn't going to
make your disk spin any faster.
What you are experiencing is not unique. Disk i/o is often what qmail
installations run out of first. Mind you it has to be some resource that runs
out first so don't feel too bad.
Regards.
>
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> De : Petr Novotny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Envoyé : Wednesday, October 25, 2000 15:20
> À : Nicolas Deslions
> Objet : Re: Queue growing...
>
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> On 25 Oct 2000, at 15:13, Nicolas Deslions wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > I just setup a new qmail, with concurrency set to 300, we also changed
> > our "mailers" here ( progs we use to format an outgoing press revue)
> > Our new mailer is really fast to send and the queue on qmail is only
> > growing, i only have from 3 to 12 concurrent remote process...
> >
> > messages in queue: 7595
> > messages in queue but : 5591
> >
> > Why do i have so many "not yet preprocessed" messages ??
>
> Because once the directory becomes full, operations like open()
> and unlink() slow down noticeably. There are three solutions:
> 1. Throttle down the injection process to keep the todo directory
> from overflowing.
> 2. Get a decent filesystem (like reiserfs for linux)
> 3. Apply a big-todo patch (it hashes the todo directory in the same
> way the mess, remote etc. directories are hashed). [Keep in mind
> that you need to empty the queue, first.]
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