My mailserver runs an RedHat Linux based "homemade dist" OS.
It's a pII 233 MHZ, and it's got 96 MB memory (+256mb swap).
When qmail starts delivering, the syslogd daemon spikes to around 86% CPU,
and it's nearly all taken by the system, not in userspace.
My maillogs get around 25MB a week (maybe one can trim down that size a bit,
by logging only errors in the "long" format ??).
But when i tail -f /var/log/maillog i don't really think that it's logging
that fast (even after a -ALRM signal to qmail-send with ~800 mails in the
queue).
So if i take like 25/7days/24 hours i get around 150KB logging per hour.
That does not justify a 80% load of my system on syslogd's behalf...
Does anyone recognize this, or even better have a solution?
Any tip at all is super-welcome :)
/Magnus Naeslund
