RE: Disappearing Disk Space

["Dan Tappin" <dan.tappin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SA kicks butt.  I have pretty much dropped all my PO filters and replaced them with SA filters.

 

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Here is a MRTG plot of my incoming SPAM (I need to work on the colour scheme :^)

 

http://mrtg.orourke.ca/firewall/spam.html

 

Notice that at night (5 pm -> 8 am) pretty all the mail we receive is spam!

 

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Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Strickland [mailto:jims@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 3:41 PM
> To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Disappearing Disk Space
> Actually, Tenon support contacted me. We did a ps -ax and
> found that SpamAssassin was hanging up. I had my SpamAssassin filter
> set up with about 20 domains whitelisted. I deleted my SpamAssassin
> filter and reset it without any whitelists. So far everything seems to
> be going ok. I will be keeping a close eye on things for the next
> several hours to see if disk space continues to disappear. If the
> problem is fixed, I will slowly add whitelisted domains back in until
> I see the problem happen again. That should let me know which entry is
> causing the problem.
>
> Dan Tappin wrote:
> > Try `du -s
> > "path_to_file"`
> >
> > And look at each main directory on your system:
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > sudo du -s /var/
> >
> > Will show you the size of the /var directory and so on.  I wish
> > du supported --max-depth=1 as it does on Linux as it will give a
> > nice clean summary of the working directory usage.
> >
> > I am guessing your culprit will be in the /var/spool or /var/log
> > direcories.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >   
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jim Strickland [mailto:jims@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 12:30 PM
> > > To: Post.Office List
> > > Subject: Disappearing Disk Space
> > >
> > >
> > > I am currently having a problem with my Post.Office server where my
> > > disk
> > > space is disappearing. I have almost 4.5GB of free space on the
> > > partition where Post.Office is installed. However, within 8 hours
> > > that
> > > disk space has dwindled down to 68MB and a message informing me
> > > that
> > > there is not enough memory left to run any programs. As soon as I
> > > reboot, the missing disk space is returned, just to start the cycle
> > > over
> > > again. I have had Post.Office since October, but this problem only
> > > started happening this week. Has anyone else experienced anything
> > > similar? If so, was there a fix?
> > >
> > > --
> > > James Strickland - MCP
> > > IT Manager
> > > American Roamer
> > > 901-377-8585
> > > http://www.americanroamer.com
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> -- 
> James Strickland - MCP
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