Re: [Mimedefang] really high cpu

2005-03-22 Thread James Ebright
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:57:11 -0600 (CST), -ray wrote > Far more common i see is an extremely large /var/spool/mqueue dir on > very slow (ext2) filesystem. Consider splitting it into several > queues, and move old messages into slower queues. Being a private entity... we do not have a large mai

Re: [Mimedefang] really high cpu

2005-03-22 Thread Rob MacGregor
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:18:41 -0500, James Ebright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also... isn't > Solaris still using UFS??? Yes, but while the name has stayed the same the underlying file system has changed over the years. During Solaris 8's lifetime journalling was introduced. I'm sure other chan

Re: [Mimedefang] really high cpu

2005-03-20 Thread -ray
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, John Nemeth wrote: copies). BTW, 1 MB may not be that large of a file by today's standards, but relatively speaking it is huge for /etc/hosts. A far more common problem that I see is extremely large /etc/passwds (another file that is linearly searched many times). Far more co

Re: [Mimedefang] really high cpu

2005-03-20 Thread John Nemeth
On Jul 2, 5:02am, "James Ebright" wrote: } } Not to get into the basic Linux vs the world debate here (Otherwise known as } my OS is better), but: I don't generally get into that debate either. I run several different versions of UNIX depending on my needs. I do my preference, but I try

Re: [Mimedefang] really high cpu

2005-02-09 Thread James Ebright
Not to get into the basic Linux vs the world debate here (Otherwise known as my OS is better), but: On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 02:55:31 -0800, John Nemeth wrote: >>Nah, recent versions of Solaris can easily beat Linux. >>Load is certainly important, but looking for other things such >>as whether

Re: [Mimedefang] really high cpu

2005-02-09 Thread John Nemeth
On Jun 24, 10:52am, "James Ebright" wrote: } On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:08:17 -0800 (PST), Stephen Ford wrote } > mimedefang is using ~45% of my cpu which has me scared Is there anything else running on the box? If not, then this isn't a good measure since the OS will give all the CPU to the onl

Re: [Mimedefang] really high cpu

2005-02-01 Thread James Ebright
Solaris just is not the best platform for running sendmail on, I have experience with E-450 boxes (as well as ultra-sparcs) running Solaris 8 (top end solaris at the time) and honestly, I could bring that beefy box to its knees just by running billing and letting the little pentium 300 pump out

[Mimedefang] really high cpu

2005-01-31 Thread Stephen Ford
mimedefang is using ~45% of my cpu which has me scared since there isn't any mail running through the box except mine and I'm suppose to use this box for the campus staff of over 1000 employee's in a few weeks. I'm not getting much of a delay when I send mail that isn't spam (less then a second) a