On Tuesday 13 July 2004 09:47 am, Fernando Costa de Almeida wrote: > Hi all, > > Today, when issuing a top on my pop server, I noticed that there were > some vdelivermails process eating a lot of cpu resources. Then, looking > in the logs files, I saw that it was a spam to a specific domain, and > this domain had the postmaster account as the 'catchall account'. > > What surprised me is the number of emails in the its Maildir: about > 1479158.... Is the number of emails in a Maildir related to the amount > of cpu vdelivermail uses? I saw an increasing use of the disc too, > somethings 100%...
if you're using ext2/3 filesystem, or any other non-directory hashing filesystem, this will occur. This isn't vpopmail's fault, it's the filesystem. You have two options, remove the emails, or switch to a better filesystem (such as reiserfs, or UFS with DIR_HASH) for more details about this filesystem issue, please visit google, as this is discussed on more mailing lists than you could possibly think of. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ Systems Administrator ++ Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ www.inter7.com ++ 866.528.3530 ++ 847.492.0470 int'l kitchen @ #qmail #gentoo on EFnet ++ scriptkitchen.com/qmail