On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Louis A. DeRobertis wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi Bart,
> 
> I saw something similar to this before I recompiled qpopper with the
> --enable-servermode option.  Have you tried that?
> 

there is no servermode with the maildir feature.

--Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco                            Network Administrator/Engineer
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> Regards-
> 
> Lou
> 
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:47:38PM +0100, Bart Dumon wrote:
> i'm running qpopper 4.0.5 on linux (2.4.x) with maildir patch
> (0.12) and pam_radius for authentication.
> 
> right now, i'm suffering from high cpu load averages once it's
> gets too busy the load will skyrocket to abnormal high values
> and the service will become unavailable untill it's restarted.
> this typically happens during peak times when we receive 15 pop
> sessions/sec.
> 
> at first it thought it was radius related because i'm seeing the
> following error message during the peak times:
> 
> Jan 19 14:07:41 xxx popper[13404]: pam_radius_auth: RADIUS server x.x.x.x
> failed to respond
> 
> but even with a more performant radius, the problem persists, it
> looks like the radius errors are a consequence of the problem and
> not the real cause.
> everything is pointing in the direction of the amount of pop sessions
> whenever you get to the 13-14pops/sec barrier, qpopper seems to
> be giving up. it's not traffic related because the amount of traffic
> is higher outside the peak hours.
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> --------------------
> Louis DeRobertis
> Network Administrator
> Suffolk Cooperative Library System
> 
> 
> 

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Anthony J. Biacco                            Network Administrator/Engineer
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