Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

[Hans du Plooy <hansdp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have several SUSE 9.1 Mail servers running.  I use postfix+courier with 
Maildir.  If fam-server isn't running, the following fills up my mail log 
pretty quickly:

Oct 18 17:16:45 eos imapd: Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (hansdp)
Oct 18 17:16:45 eos imapd: Error: Input/output error
Oct 18 17:16:45 eos imapd: Check for proper operation and configuration
Oct 18 17:16:45 eos imapd: of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd).

Starting /etc/init.d/fam gets rid of this, but fam, from time to time, maxes 
out CPU and disc, which is very annoying and slows down imap and samba for 
everyone who uses the server.  I usually have to kill or restart fam to stop 
this.

I have not seen this behaviour in Debian or Red Hat.  In fact, this is the 
only time that I've seen courier wanting to talk to fam at all.

I have tried to set fam not to do anything (through sysconfig and the config 
files), to no avail.  I haven't found any setting that lets courier ignore 
fam.

How do I get rid of this behaviour?

Thanks
-- 
Kind regards
Hans du Plooy
Newington Consulting Services
hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za