[CentOS] Dovecot Sending Slow down

Mark Weaver mdw1982 at mdw1982.com
Thu Jul 27 09:40:27 UTC 2006


John Hinton wrote:
> John Hinton wrote:
> 
>> I moved a hundred or so additional hosting accounts to one of my 
>> centos 4 servers. It was doing great before with like 50 accounts.
>>
>> Anyway, since doing this sending email has slowed a lot. I have not 
>> done anything with the default settings in dovecot beyond the basics 
>> of what services and such at the top.. Server loads are running under 
>> 1. Disk IO is generally under 10%, ram no problem with no real swap 
>> used. I'm running dovecot in conjunction with sendmail.
>>
>> Anybody have any ideas about what appears to be slow authentication... 
>> basically the mail client takes 5 to 15 seconds to connect and send. 
>> And this is from within the network. I suspect it is about the same 
>> from the outside.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John Hinton
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> Crap!!! I just love answering my own posts!
> 
> One of my nameservers had failed to restart and it just so happened to 
> be the one that lives here... Restarted it and gee.. sendmail/dovecot 
> was suddenly very happy!
> 
> John Hinton <red faced>

:P  I was gonna say it's your DNS, but then you figured that out!

-- 
Mark

"If you have found a very wise man, then you've found
a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough
to learn from his own stupidity."
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