[Mimedefang] OT help with qpopper

[Ray Spinhirne]

THis is OT but maybe someone can help.

We have the HPUX supplied version of Qpopper running on our admin mail server.

It seems to work ok under light load.  However, one the load gets high
sessions which previously ran in 1 to 2 cpu seconds now take 20-30 or more.

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.

System logs seem to indicate the primary bottle neck is CPU and not
disk.  We have a 4 cpu system.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Ray Spinhirne
Director Computer Services
St. Edward's University