Last saterday we had to reset the machine. Remote login over ssh was not possible. The load was steadily climbing to over 40, according to a web interface: http://europa.hostingxs.nl/sysinfo/
All filesystems are reiser. Unfortunately the machine wasn't installed as a
Reiser is fast and looses it's data fast as well, if there are any disc-problems - Better use ext3! This is a mailserver, isn't it? If so reliability goes before speed -> no reiser!
backup server / dns server, and it wasn't prepared for use by customers. To be able to use quota I was forced to create two filesystems (document root and mail spool) on loopback filesystem.
Why don't you use postfix, there is a kind of "quota-option" within mailbox-settings /etc/postfix/main.cf e.g.: mailbox_size_limit = 51200000 message_size_limit = 10240000 for 50 MB Mailbox and max. 10MB Attachement, you can change this to your delight. Or with ext3 rewrite /etc/fstab e.g. (the part with usrquota): /dev/sda6 /home ext3 defaults,usrquota 1 2 activate your quotas after a reboot. Reiser doesn't support quotas (as I know) and that's why I don't use it either. Next thing is: /var/spool/mail -> only 1 GB, is that enough if you get more accounts (better use usrquota or the postfix option above, sendmail should have such a feature as well)?
The partitions reside on a 3ware IDE raid controller. I have no clue whatsoever why it would attempt to access the cdrom drive. I'm not even sure it the machine has one, and it certainly should not be mounted.
From phpsysinfo:
IDE Devices hdb: (none) (Capacity: 0.00 GB ) Do you have a CD-ROM? I think so! Maybe you read here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.2/0429.html http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2001-11/msg00050.html There were several users having problems with kupdated. This has something to do with the kerneldriver for your hd-controller. There were sometimes kernelproblems with RAID drivers, like SuSE 8.2 with Promise, or was it 8.1? Maybe something has to be compiled new. Philippe