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Hello, I recently installed dovecot on a server running Debian. I only have 10 users, but we probably have 6Gig of email between us. Things were working flawlessly for a couple of weeks, and I'm still getting email, but the last few days we are getting fewer emails that we typically do. So although things seem to be working well, everyone is suspicious something is wrong due to the lack of email volume....

....5G Nov 12 11:42 maillog.back) The transfer was done over two Gigabit nic's one onboard broadcom on IBM X440 server, Other Intel on standard selfbuilt dual P3 880 machine. Both servers are running Red-Hat Linux Coping from dual P3 800 3Gig ram Seagate Cheetha 10 000 rpm disk to dual P4 Xean mp 6Gig ram 6xdisks in raid5e Anybody wish to comment on this? Any ideas to make it even faster? I have to [root@ais-mail01 log]# time rsync -azSHve ssh maillog.back root@10.0.0.9:/var/spool/mail/ root@10.0.0.9's password: building file list ... done maillog.back wrote 357110468 bytes read 36 bytes...

...artition in fstab, ran mkswap again, double checked it's availability with vmstat -s but still it's just not getting used. Sunday, the box died around 3am and sar seems to show memory use on the rise right up till it hurled[1] (I just stuck another gig in the box monday, so sar only shows 6gig on sunday) Anyone know whats up with this? PS: swap is an LVM partition. Thanks Thomas [0] - http://lwn.net/Articles/83588/ [1] - sar -A 12:00:01 AM kbmemfree kbmemused %memused kbbuffers kbcached kbswpfree kbswpused %swpused kbswpcad ... 02:40:01 AM 197656 5909384 96.76 20330...