I am having difficulty understanding the relationship between hobbit and the sendmail messages in /var/spool/mqueue - they are large, dynamic and are taking significant CPU time as well as keeping my disk drive fairly busy. Can this be controlled/eliminated?
Thanks Gregg
GREGORY D. WHITEHOUSE Unix Administrator Health Information Technology Services (HITS-NS) 6176 Young Street Halifax, NS B3K 2A6
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On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 14:22, Whitehouse, Gregg <Gregg.Whitehouse at nshealth.ca> wrote:
I am having difficulty understanding the relationship between hobbit and the sendmail messages in /var/spool/mqueue – they are large, dynamic and are taking significant CPU time as well as keeping my disk drive fairly busy.
Can this be controlled/eliminated?
If these are alerts, then yes - though obviously then you lose the alerting. What does the "mailq" command tell you?
However, if they are alerts I'd say you need to look to why you've got so many that it's causing (what I assume should be) commercial grade hardware problems. I've got a tiny 500 MHz box with 512 MB of RAM and a single 2.5" hard disk handling many dozens of emails per hour without even breaking a sweat, and that includes virus and spam scanning overheads.
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