[TriLUG] Maildir too full?

[Randy Barlow]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:45:33 -0400, "Josh Vickery" <josh at vickeryj.com>
declared:
> This may be completely wrong, but what's your memory usage like on the
> machine? How about swap space, do you have a sufficient amount of
> that? If the VM isn't able to swap very effectively it could be that
> your buffer cache and/or directory cache are being flushed too often,
> and your delete operation is causing direct disk access.

It's an old machine, and is maxed out at 512 MB of RAM.  It's got at
least a GB of swap.  I don't think that is the issue though, because
I use Gkrellm and when this happens you can see the disk accessing, but
you don't see any activity on the swap.  Good suggestion though!

> Another related thought is that you might try remounting the partition
> with the imap folders with the "noatime" option. If you are indeed
> running out of buffer cache then it could be that the imap daemon is
> accessing a number of different files, which, with atime tracking,
> would mean writing to a bunch of files, which might further explain
> the long pauses.

Yeah, it's already mounted that way, thanks though!

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