MailScanner taking tons of cpu/mem and halting my server

[Peter Bonivart]

James Gray wrote:
> I once inherited a Solaris system that was configured with 2 drives in a
> RAID5 with one hot spare.  How did the space cadet who configured the
> server accomplish this feat you ask?
>
> Well, they simply partitioned each drive into two slices.  Voila! Four
> separate partitions and DiskSuite[1] was happy: 3 slices into RAID5, the
> 4th becoming the "hot spare".  (Technical bit: The metastat databases
> were on different drives)  When I went to manglement to ask them for
> some $$$ to buy another drive and fix the problem, the response was "but
> $PREVIOUS_ADMIN said this was fully redundant!".

It wasn't completely happy since it even complains about metadevices on
the same controller. However, nothing can stop a clueless admin.

> So I just backed everything up and turned it into a RAID-0 with no hot
> spare.  Some people should not be allowed NEAR computers :P

Thereby retaining the non-existing redundancy. ;-)

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/Peter Bonivart

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Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.25-14,
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