On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Daniel Conlon wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I have had qmail installed on a machine with < 100 users for 6 months and all 
>aspects of the installation are working correctly. However, it has recently been 
>brought to my attention that the hard disk activity on the machine is 
>excessive/abnormal - the disk is flat out.
> 
> By systematically stopping processes I have established that it is qmail which is 
>causing this. qmail is not under any load to speak of. 
> 
> Is this normal for qmail? If not, what could be causing this?

Is it qmail-send or qmail-smtpd that is causing it?

What do the logs say? (tm)

What's the output of /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat run serveral times to
see if the queue is growing rapidly?

-- 
Regards
Peter
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