Re: [cobalt-users] Fw: Qube 2 - problems

["Jeremy Kettelhohn" <jkettelhohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Going to answer a few questions I was asked yesterday.  Disk space is
fine max on root is 78% can't get it any smaller than that.

> From: Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> I have not installed any updates on a particular machine, but it is
> displaying the symptoms you describe.
>
> In particular I feel it is related to IMAP.  The users keep their inboxes
> fairly tidy although some hadn't enabled the purge feature in their client
> (OutLook 2000) so all deleted mail was still there.  Also they had not
> disabled the default "look in ALL IMAP folders for newmail" feature so
> OutLook 2000 was polling all the users mail folders and not just the inbox
> ... HUGE load on the Microserver.
>
   That is definitely a possibility.  We use IMAP heavily, with a mix of POP
in there to.  But something I've noticed and wondering after spending hours
poking and prodding this cute toaster.  Has anyone else noticed a possible
memory leak in qpopper or imap or is it the monitoring software?   Basically
the only things running on the box were mail and web.  Disabled everything
else.   After 8 hours of heavy mail usage, we went from a fresh reboot of
16mb free memory and 500k swap used down to 800k free and 4 meg of swap
used.  Ohh and during peak hours our load average stays around 2.5 - 4