On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote:
Hi,
I just setuped a new server. It is only running postfix at this time,
relaying mail from another server.
The distribution is RedHat 7.3 with all of the updates.
There is a large amount of mail in the queue (about 17k mails).
The load average
I/O bound?
Being killed by the journalling overhead of ext3?
Insufficient RAM to cache the files being accessed in the disk
(improbable)?
My first guess is that this has to do with interaction of postfix with
ext3 journalling.
Things to check/try:
- Is the system actually I/O bound?
- What
Hello Sagi,
Maybe limit the number of postfix processes (of some kind?)
No, it's not that:
[sagi@black sagi]$ ps auxww|grep -ic postfix
77
[sagi@black sagi]$
Command w or uptime shows number of processes that are waiting for CPU
AND number of processes that stuck for one or other reason
Take a look here:
http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/postfix/ext3.shtml
Cheers,
Henry
Sagi Bashari wrote:
On 14/11/2002 13:51, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote:
Hi,
I just setuped a new server. It is only running postfix at this time,
relaying mail from
That's where I took the original command from.
I can't change the partition settings or repartition the harddisk
because /var is a very big partition that is also used for data
(database,web).
However i have empty 6GB partition on the harddisk. I don't need that
much for spool directory, is
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov:
I can't change the partition settings or repartition the harddisk
because /var is a very big partition that is also used for data
(database,web).
time to split it up. worth a few minutes of downtime to improve
relyability and performance.
On 14/11/2002 16:50, Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov:
I can't change the partition settings or repartition the harddisk
because /var is a very big partition that is also used for data
(database,web).
time to split it up. worth a few minutes of
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov:
time to split it up. worth a few minutes of downtime to improve
relyability and performance.
I only have remote access to the server (it is colocated).
I asked here few weeks ago if there is a reason to put /var/www
somewhere else
On 14/11/2002 17:30, Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov:
I can move /var to / and repartition /var. But I have software RAID
running on this drive. Is it safe to do, remotely, when software RAID is
activated on / and /home?
probably OK, but you won't
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Subject: Re: postfix causing very high load average
On 14/11/2002 17:30, Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov:
I can move /var to / and repartition /var. But I have software RAID
running
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