I realised the reason why I am facing this is that it is using up 95% of the
inodes
although there are 2.2gb space left.
Anyways i can increase the inodes? would that be a solution?
Will this happen to a FreeBSD box? i am thinking of switching to freebsd
instead
of debian.
Eugene
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Teo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 1:33 AM
Subject: qmail Size Problem
> Hi guys
>
> I was setting up qmail and I encountered a very strange problem.
> Everything is setup properly, I can do virtual domains, blah blah.
> In short. it works.
>
> The thing is: whenever i start qmail, my /usr which qmail is occuping
> keeps on growing. And when I stop qmail, it halts. It grows up to
> the point it says no space left where in fact it has 2.2gb space. Next,
> i did a du -s /usr and the space is not the same as reported df. It's
> big difference. one is 500mb and the other is 4.5gb?
>
> Now, has anyone here encountered this problem? If so, how did
> you rectify this?
>
> In case you are going to ask these questions, here are my answers:
>
> 1) qmail is working. It is running perfectly ok. I can create virtual
> domains,
> pop3 emails, send emails via smtp server, etc.
>
> 2) I am using ucspi-tcp and daemontools from djb as well as qmail.
>
> 3) qmail is running under /service.
>
> 4) logs are at /var/logs/qmail. it has nothing to do with /usr and it has
> distinct
> partitions.
>
> 5) I am using multilog.
>
> qmaill 15407 0.0 0.0 1240 392 ? S 00:22 0:00
> /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail
> qmaill 21727 0.0 0.0 1240 392 ? S 00:22 0:00
> /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd
> qmaill 10392 0.0 0.0 1240 392 ? S 00:22 0:00
> /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/pop3d
>
> 7) /var/qmail is a symlink for /usr/local/qmail. /usr itself is a ext2
> partition of 6gb. I
> am using Debian (Sid).
>
> /dev/sda3 5.7G 1.3G 4.1G 23% /usr
>
> pancreas:/usr/local/qmail# du -sh /usr/
> 591M /usr
>
> 8) My guess is also log file as well BUT there is no log for these. And
log
> files are
> found in /var.
>
> >My guess is that your /var/qmail may be increasing coz of the log file,
> >not the queue. But if the queue is the problem, then try a du on the
> >/var/qmail/queue directory to check if that is the one with the problem.
>
> pancreas:/usr/local/qmail# du -sh /var/qmail/queue/
> 412k /var/qmail/queue
>
> >splogger and multilog work really fine for me, but if I'm like running
> >it in supervise without testing it first, the logs tend to get really
> >large if the qmail service is unable to bind to the correct port. Just
> >run the commands inside the script that you are using to run qmail.
>
> root 14656 0.0 0.0 1224 340 ? S Jun16 0:00 supervise
> qmail-send
> root 26223 0.0 0.0 1224 340 ? S Jun16 0:00 supervise
log
> root 3662 0.0 0.0 1224 340 ? S Jun16 0:00 supervise
> qmail-smtpd
> root 1636 0.0 0.0 1224 340 ? S Jun16 0:00 supervise
log
> root 28124 0.2 0.0 1224 340 ? S 00:22 0:08 supervise
> qmail-pop3d
> root 10997 0.0 0.0 1224 340 ? S 00:22 0:00 supervise
log
>
> 9) I am using a DIY Dual P-3 800 with 1GB ECC SDRAM Ram,
> 2 SCSI Seagate Cheetahs, running Debian (Sid).
>
> Thank you.
>
> Eugene
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