inodes problem

[Scott Silva]

Sarah Trayser spake the following on 5/31/2007 10:47 AM:
> On 31/05/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> 
>> A little off topic, but MailScanner systems get a big performance
>> boost by
>> running the /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/ directory in tmpfs. You
>> would
>> need to make sure that it didn't fill up, and it might be a permission
>> problem
>> in your setups.
> 
> This often cannot be done on a VPS which is why we do not configure it
> that way in our setups.
> 
>> The bug that was mentioned is several years old, and should be
>> long gone.
>> Do you have reports of other people with your setup having the same
>> problem?
> 
> No, we have not come across this as a problem before. On one of our
> own servers there are 700 of these old empty directories, on another
> 350,  and on another only 150. I just had a look to see if I could
> find any pattern and it does look like these are being left behind
> *primarily* at the time of the nightly cPanel software update, so that
> at least gives us a clue. MailScanner would be restarted following
> this update.
> 
Sometimes mailscanner benefits from a sleep of 10 or so seconds between a stop
and a start. It gives the children some time to finish dying off.

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