-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kris Deugau wrote: > 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?
256 MB > How much physical memory do you have? 512 MB ... > > 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. That's quite possible. I intend to upgrade the spam boxes to Fedora Core 1 in the near future. Currently, things are working great. I have a nightly cron job which stops the services and remounts the tmpfs filesystem. Sure, it's a hack, but it gets the job done. Richard Laager Wikstrom Telecom Internet -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.2 iQA+AwUBQAQxCW31OrleHxvOEQLAgACXdBOok5rWbyic4yOAk0YID+NqQACgyWSC vgpmIf+UzNdTDZAIKn2U5JA= =JdQI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
