Postfix Sluggish

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 04.11.2005 schrieb Ki Song um 18:16:

> Another tidbit I thought was interesting was that the maillog is about
> 23megs. It seems like it is unusually large ... the past couple weeks, the
> logs have been around 4-8 megs ... every sunday evening the logs are backed
> up and a new log is generated. is this relevant at all?

A huge log can slow down things. Did you enable debug mode to get such a
huge maillog file? Or were you target of mailbombing? You can manually
rotate the log and start with a fresh, empty one. Another possibility is
to change the logging behaviour by changing /etc/syslog.conf and
restarting the syslog daemon afterwards:

# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.*                                                  /var/log/maillog

Change the right hand side (the log file target) to read
"-/var/log/maillog". The leading minus sign makes a difference.

Alexander


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