On Monday 06 December 2004 02:27, Hans du Plooy wrote:
I'm using Courier justabout everywhere. SUSE's courier is compiled with fam support, and if you don't start the fam server, courier fills up your mail log with error messages. The problem is that fam, from time to time (more than once a day) all of a sudden and for no apparent reason, starts flatlines the CPU and disc usage, making it extremely hard to use the box. I've seen this on both 9.1 and 9.2. Short of recompiling courier without fam support, I haven't had any success in trying to stop courier from talking to fam and/or disable logging for courier.
Does anybody know why this happens? Any suggestions.
It (fam) was doing the same thing to me, but only sometimes when I'd call up Kate or Knode, about half the time it would do what you're describing- taking up at least 80% CPU cycles. I'd put in a bug report about Kate, thinking it was it, but apparently it isn't now that you've said something too. I did happen to do a reboot a few days ago, because we had a storm and the power went out (love my UPS!), and ever since that particular reboot, fam has been behaving very well...so has Kate and Knode. So, I haven't a clue what was wrong or why it's now okay. Maybe just try a power off and restart, ya never know, it might fix yours too, heh. John B.