[Mimedefang] OT help with qpopper

-ray ray at ops.selu.edu
Wed Sep 1 11:46:35 EDT 2004


On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Ray Spinhirne wrote:

> With several of these sessions active the CPU load goes to 100% and 
> the system is really slow.  We usually have to stop the qpopper deamon to
> recover and then hope we don't get another load peak which cause a 
> repeat of the action.

Do people have pop clients set to "keep mail on server"?  If so check some
of the sizes of inbox files...  When the inbox gets to be 50-100mb and
qpopper has to scan the entire file each time someone checks mail, things
go south pretty quickly.  Inbox needs to be for NEW mail only.

ray




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