At 04:09 PM 5/21/2008, you wrote:
On May 20, 2008, at 05:05, Sasa wrote:
Hi, I have a critical problem with qpopper 4.0.9, when qpopper
service is running on mail server the queue increase and I have more
200 mails in spool !! I think that qpopper daemon use a too much
system resource (memory and CPU), if qpopper daemon is stopped in a
few minutes the queue is empty.
When qpopper daemon is running I have:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ps -ax|grep popper
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/
procps-3.2.7/FAQ
5026 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/popper -s -R -T600
5276 ? R 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/popper -s -R -T600
5277 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/popper -s -R -T600
..how can I solve the problem ??
Thanks in advance.
What does the qpopper log show for those messages and that user?
I think the problem is caused because some user is choosing the
option of leaving the mail on the server and their mailbox has become
very large. This causes problem at close down when:
1. The mailbox is copied to the temporary .pop file.
2. The .pop file is copied back to the user mailbox
while eliminating any deleted messages.
All the file copying IO can be crippling specially if the temporary
files are not on a different disk spindle as the mailboxes.
Take a look at the size of you user's mailboxes when this problem is occurring.
Butch
