> Maybe run atop or other tools to see where your bottleneck is? > > Cheers, > Sebastian > > On 04.12.2012, at 16:15, "Rajesh M" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> hi >>> >>> i have a server with around 6000 mail boxes >>> >>> it is a dual processor quad core with 4 gb ram >>> centos 5 with qmail toaster >>> >>> it contains around 3.5 terrabytes of data >>> >>> the data is spread over the 2 nrs 2 tb drives >>> >>> about half the mailboxes have the normal path ie >>> /home/vpopmail/domains/ >>> >>> and the other half has path to the second drive >>> (i changed the path in the mysql database for around half mailboxes to >>> point to the second drive) >>> >>> the machine is accessed by pop / imap / smtp >>> >>> this was working fine till 2 days ago >>> >>> i noted that users were not cleaning up the trash folders and space >>> utilization had gone to 90%. So i ran the qmail-clean-trash script >>> which >>> cleaned up a lot of trash data. usage is arond 85 % . >>> >>> this was done in the weekend - ie 2 days ago >>> >>> now since monday onwards ie the local queue is piling up and delivering >>> very slowly. >>> >>> the email traffic send+receive is around 250,000 (around 20 gb of data) >>> emails per day with most of the emails being delivered locally. >>> >>> i have to keep firing perl qmhandle -a -- to get the local emails >>> delivred >>> >>> but still it is very slow >>> >>> can somebody let me know the reason for this sudden slow delivery of >>> emails >>> >>> rajesh >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: >>> [email protected] >> >> >> in addition to the above information >> >> i have kept concurrencyincoming - 400, concurrencylocal - 300, >> concurrencyremote - 200 >> >> server load goes as high 200 sometimes >> >> also please let me know how i can spread the data / load between two or >> more servers. Any solutions for the same ? >> >> rajesh >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
i have htop installed but does not show any specific problem one important point is that only local emails keep piling up. remote emails are delivered quickly rajesh --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
