Richard Laager wrote: > We've had our /var/spool/MIMEDefang directory on a tmpfs filesystem > for quite a while. Every once and a while, mail stops flowing because > the tmpfs filesystem is full. That by itself is strange. It's even > stranger because when I rm -rf /var/spool/MIMEDefang/* (after > stopping MIMEDefang and Sendmail), the disk usage stays the same. I > even made sure that all the mimedefang* and sendmail processes were > killed.
How big is your tmfs mount? How much physical memory do you have? I've had no trouble other than a CPU bottleneck on the box I have using tmpfs on the MD spool. > The box is running Red Hat Linux 9. The kernel version is 2.4.20-18.9 > from the RedHat RPM. I *think* a newer RH kernel should be available; there has been a bugfix release and a security release for 7.x/8.0 within the past month. > Has anyone seen this sort of behavior? Not on the one server I have using tmpfs; it's RH7.3/kernel 2.4.20-24.7 (which I should really reboot for the recently released security fix) with a 96M tmpfs mount in 512M physical memory. Uptime has been more or less continuous for almost a year in this configuration aside from kernel-replacement or need-to-rearrange-UPS-load downtime. -kgd -- "Sendmail administration is not black magic. There are legitimate technical reasons why it requires the sacrificing of a live chicken." - Unknown _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
