dear all i haved my mail server running on a production envirnmen with qmail as mta of 6000 users and a concureent connection of around 300 users during working hours on a p3 copermine compaq ML370 with 893 Mb ram .
my server crashed last wekk the existing server crashed with sen virtual server as host server i have setup my mail server as a rhel5 as guest os with 4 gb ram and 2 virtual cpu i installed the os on host hddd and assigned i Tb hdd from the lun to my mailserver and migrated all users data the new server since then iam facing 2 problems 1 i have a serious performance issue during working hours my sar out put during peak hours is 15:30:03 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 15:30:04 all 9.95 0.00 9.45 80.60 0.00 0.00 15:30:05 all 5.03 0.00 9.05 85.93 0.00 0.00 15:30:06 all 8.00 0.00 7.50 84.50 0.00 0.00 Average: all 7.67 0.00 8.67 83.67 0.00 0.00 Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 (mail.shapoorji.com) 03/22/10 16:00:02 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 16:00:03 all 4.47 0.00 5.21 55.33 0.00 34.99 16:00:04 all 10.28 0.00 7.02 75.94 0.00 6.77 16:00:05 all 5.72 0.00 6.72 80.85 0.00 6.72 Average: all 6.81 0.00 6.31 70.68 0.00 16.20 2 my local mails are not getiing deliverd it lies on local queue and will not get flushed it will get delivered only if i stop my imap server or my httd server then all the mails get deliverd to respective users and again after some time the same happpens and also my webmail users frequently get imap drop error in the imapd file what would be an idle value for maxdeamons & maxperip value waiting for your reply The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/