> Hi,
>
>
> Several times a month our server freezes up on deliveries and the system
> load average shoots up into the hundreds. Things quickly return to normal
> between one and two minutes later but this has always puzzled me.
>
> Today I was watching the system from up close when it happened.
>
Hi,
Several times a month our server freezes up on deliveries and the system
load average shoots up into the hundreds. Things quickly return to normal
between one and two minutes later but this has always puzzled me.
Today I was watching the system from up close when it happened.
May 17
On Tue, May 17, 2016 11:45 am, Simon Matter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Several times a month our server freezes up on deliveries and the system
>> load average shoots up into the hundreds. Things quickly return to normal
>> between one and two minutes later but this has always puzzled me.
>>
>>
On Tue, May 17, 2016, at 22:51, Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 11:45 am, Simon Matter wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Several times a month our server freezes up on deliveries and the system
> >> load average shoots up into the hundreds. Things quickly return to
> What we do at FastMail to make deliver.db not suck is store it on tmpfs. The
> repack is tons faster. Sure you lose it over a full server restart, but all
> you lose is the duplicate suppression. If you wanted to be really clever
> about it, you could copy the file during the shutdown
