How large is your tmpfs drive? Whats your usual mail volume? By default Linux allows itself to use 1/2 your ram per tmpfs drive.
-Brenden On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:04, Greg Miller wrote: > Platform is RedHat EL AS 3 > Dual Xeon 3.0 Ghz CPU > 1 GB RAM > Load is between 1-3 messages per second. > > System performs very well, most of the time, with only 2-3 busy slaves. > However, on occasion, I will see all 15 of my slaves busy, lots of disk > I/O to swap, and "Please try again later" messages in the maillog. > > I am using tmpfs for /var/spool/MIMEDEFANG as recommended in the FAQ. I > believe my tmpfs is being sent to swap during these periods and causing > horrible performance. > > Has anyone else seen this behavior? Any solutions out there? > Thanks. -- Brenden Conte System Programmer, C&CT Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (518)276-2540 _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
