On Jun 21, 10:55 pm, "D. Stussy" <spam+newsgro
...@bde-arc.ampr.org>
wrote:
> "alexander.yegorov" <alex.yego
...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ac273dcc-669d-4fd7-8d85-f1f78e3c6117@33g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi comp.mail.sendmail community,
> > On our production environment, we got into the situation when the disk
> > space usage become filling up to 90-100% on root partition on the
> > server responsible for relaying the mail. Of course we took the
> > measures to report such behavior and are restarting sendmail to free
> > the inodes up and avoid the disk usage issue.
> > However, it is not a solution to restart the sendmail each time, when
> > the disk usage goes up to 90-100%. Also as an alternative we looked
> > into such dirty workarounds as root partition increasing and
> > RequiresDirFsync option in sendmail.cf, while seeking for more elegant
> > and less resource expensive variant.
> > Has someone got handy experience with forcing the sendmail children to
> > cleanup after themselves?
> Is there a reason why you can't move the log, spool, and/or mailbox
> directories to another file system?
Nice suggestion. Thought about ext3 as an alternative. The drawback is
that production system servers count is more than 100, so I need to
test it out first at one server for some time.
Ok, I shall test and post my results here.
In the meantime, I am still open for new suggestions.
