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Scott Silva wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Sarah Trayser spake the following on 5/31/2007 10:47 AM:
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<pre wrap="">On 31/05/07, Scott Silva <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ssilva@sgvwater.com"><ssilva@sgvwater.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">This often cannot be done on a VPS which is why we do not configure it
that way in our setups.
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<pre wrap="">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?
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->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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I wonder if it's killing it, waiting for a couple of seconds for it to
die and then 'kill -9' it, without giving it long enough to clear up.
My init.d script gives is 30 seconds to clear up. Funnily enough,
there's a reason for that. If the cpanel authors think they know
better, then what can I say?<br>
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