Good Morning Michael, I really appreciate your help. I just inherited this system and am trying to figure it out.
All I can say about the mailstats is 'Doh!'. I reintialized the mailstats file this AM. Hopefully that will pick up some actually useful information. I have a E220 R my predessesor bought sitting in a box, I have to dig it out and see what it has for Memory and disks. What do you suggest for nscd settings? Using top last pid: 22925; load averages: 1.95, 2.40, 4.20 08:20:51 81 processes: 76 sleeping, 4 running, 1 on cpu CPU states: 2.2% idle, 68.4% user, 29.4% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 384M real, 54M free, 134M swap in use, 378M swap free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 22777 root 1 31 0 3056K 2824K run 0:07 14.87% sendmail 22559 root 1 22 0 2880K 2528K run 0:02 6.85% sendmail 22787 cyrus 1 58 0 17M 3312K sleep 0:02 4.83% lmtpd 22783 cyrus 1 58 0 17M 3424K sleep 0:02 3.65% lmtpd 22840 cyrus 1 48 0 17M 3288K sleep 0:00 2.90% lmtpd 22276 cyrus 1 53 0 17M 3344K sleep 0:03 2.73% lmtpd 22887 root 1 32 0 2824K 2448K run 0:00 2.15% sendmail 21999 root 1 12 0 3224K 2904K sleep 0:08 1.65% sendmail 22871 cyrus 1 58 0 17M 3304K sleep 0:00 1.25% lmtpd 22679 cyrus 1 58 0 17M 3312K sleep 0:01 1.14% lmtpd 22904 cyrus 1 28 0 17M 3264K run 0:00 1.02% lmtpd 22921 cyrus 1 33 0 2440K 1544K sleep 0:00 0.95% deliver 22668 root 1 11 0 2912K 2568K sleep 0:03 0.88% sendmail 22849 root 1 58 0 1776K 1464K cpu 0:00 0.65% top-3.5b8-sun4u 196 root 14 52 0 4984K 1792K sleep 6:09 0.61% syslogd Your statistics from dec 14 aren't all that usefull unfortunately ;^( We have slightly more users than you though only about 1000 are active users with about 700 logged in during the day (and night for that matter, many never log out). We have a U450 with 2 400MHz procesors and 2GB of memory and it sleeps most of the time. I would suggest an U220R/U60 or a U450 if you have one lying around, probably one processor will be enough but you need much more memory. You may be able to continue with your U5 if you increase your memory and improve your disk system e.g. with an SRC/P. The ide disks are a bit slow, particularly the older 4GB disks, replace them if you can and move swap to a fast disk. You can also improve performance by changing the nscd settings, they are probably TOO low, particularly the negative cache times. I would also suggest installing top so that you can see who is using that 70%. /Michael -- This space intentionally left non-blank.
