Performance question

mozzi linux at mostert.nom.za
Thu Oct 9 15:40:28 IST 2003


We saw the same here.
I disabled it and all went well


Stefaans

On Thursday 09 October 2003 15:24, Stephe Campbell wrote:
> I don't claim to be a very good sysadmin, and don't understand all on the
> top and vmstat stuff, so take this with a grain of salt.
>
> I noticed that mailscanner-mrtg was hogging a lot of my resources, and
> after investigating a little further, noticed that it seemed I always had
> multiple instances of processes running the same test. I was also getting
> messages about mrtg lock files present whenever it kicked off, meaning that
> the last mrtg hadn't finished. So I upped the time between mailscanner-mrtg
> from 5 minutes to 10 minutes. I don't really know for sure if this has
> helped over the long run, but something has cleaned up my mess of
> backlogged mails in both incoming and outgoing since I did this.
>
> Taking notice, though, I find that mailscanner-mrtg still uses a lot of
> resources, but now it is only doing it once every 10 minutes instead of
> multiple times every 5 minutes. Reading the maillog multiple times every
> occurrence of running mailscanner-mrtg, especially since I only rotate my
> maillog once a week, became more of a burden as the week went on.
>
> The one thing I can't explain, though, is why my incoming queue count
> usually grew on Monday or Tuesday, and not particularly the rest of the
> week when the maillog was at it's largest size. Maybe Monday is when most
> of the stuff came in? Anyway....
>
> Just my thoughts on what I have done.
>
> Steve Campbell
> campbell at cnpapers.com
> Charleston Newspapers
>
>
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