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list Gregg Whitehouse · Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:22:29 -0300 ·

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

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list Rob MacGregor · Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:21:28 +0100 ·

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 14:22, Whitehouse, Gregg

▸ quoted from Gregg Whitehouse

<user-fbaf984fa5d4@xymon.invalid> 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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