[Mimedefang] 40K+ emails a day and choking update
Stephen Ford
stephenmford at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 10 20:16:04 EST 2006
Ok, this is odd. At 7:30PM all of a sudden, the
server started purring along. It still has 2000+
messages on the mail relay sending it mail but the CPU
is under 50% and less then 30% of the memory is being
used :-/
Could it have been slow dns responses that caused the
backlog? I'm wondering if our pipe was being used so
heavily during the working hours..... This is a new
box that doesn't have any ports open to the big bad
internet (remember we have a virus scanning box that
takes mail first) and I didn't see any strange
processes.....
Why would this thing being choking on 2000+ messages
at 6:30PM and then be working like a champ at 7:30PM
and still have 2000+ messages?
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