-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Kristen, On Friday, December 09, 2005 you wrote: > I am having problems with Squirrelmail randomly runnning really > slowly. It has times when it runs lightning fast and other times it > comes to a crawl. I'm having a hard time diagnosing what is causing > the problem, whether it's my setup or the Virtual Private Server > we're running on.
Do you have login access to the server? If so, next time you find it running slow, type "top" (without double quotes) and you might just see the application that is using the resources to cause the delay. > Our hosting company installed Debian 3.0 on our VPS for us, with several > default programs, including a pop server - popa3d. I found that the > problem became better when I uninstalled the popa3d server. Squirrelmail > went from crawling to being lightning fast when I uninstalled it. I > thought the problem was solved, but then it started up again. I am sure > that the pop server is not running anymore. After doing a apt-get > remove, I no longer see it in the netstat reports as listening on a port. Chances are, the pop3 server had nothing todo with the speed issues. > The IMAP server I installed is Dovecot. I am using the default IMAP port > (143), and have SMTP set with port 25. I tried changing the address from > localhost to 127.0.0.1 (after reading the Wiki at > http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/BrowseProblemsByComplaint to improve > speed), but that didn't make any difference for me. > Under general options, I set server side sorting and server thread sort > to true, and did all the tests I found on a wiki page to ensure that my > Dovecot setup supported them (it does). That's always a good start. > Here are the plugins I have installed: > Installed Plugins > 1. abook_take > 2. squirrelspell > 3. mail_fetch > 4. filters > 5. archive_mail > 6. compatibility > 7. image_buttons > 8. calendar > 9. calendar_sql_backend > 10. abook_import_export > 11. notify > 12. change_passwd > 13. abook_group > 14. spam_buttons Have you tried disabling filters to see if that helps? More specifically, you might want to try disabling mail_fetch, filters, and archive_mail. > I am also having Apache deflate all their messages, based on an idea > I read somewhere on the newsgroups or the wiki. What do you mean by this? > The last time squirrelmail was running extremely slow, there were no logs > in the /var/log/mail.err for that entire day. > in /var/log/mail.warn, there are a bunch of > "gethostbyaddr(65.254.37.174) failed: 1" > messages (which I get a bunch of every day) and one Just means your SMTP server wasn't able to do a reverse DNS lookup on the IP address. That isn't hugely uncommon, but will not be the cause of your issues here. > "jB56pKDw020704: collect: premature EOM: unexpected close" > message at the beginning of the day. This probably means the client attempting to deliver the mail quit the connection before finishing what it was doing (i.e. issuing a "QUIT" statement, or issuing a LOGOUT depending on the service). > also on the last slow day, the only errors in my apache2 error.log file are: > File does not exist: /usr/share/squirrelmail/favicon.ico This is fine. Your browser is attempting to do the pretty icons for favourites, and similar such things. I'm guessing you're using firefox, it attempts to do that automagically for you. > Would upgrading to SquirrelMail 1.4.5 be a logical next step to try and > solve these issues? Like I said, I'm willing to consider any suggestion. > I'm just need some ideas! I'd recommend holding off on the upgrade for about a week or so. We're getting ready to release 1.4.6 just before the end of December. - -- Jonathan Angliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDmlEdK4PoFPj9H3MRAgXWAJwNR4Q2kNzyy2S6+EqMsfkwcU0gXACfQuqq PQqNwzJAOVqF/NRj7VEZULs= =49G4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
