da-popb4smtp causing high load levels

[webquarry]

My servers all just installed the latest DA and it appears that da-popb4smtp got updated with it.

Problem is that da-popb4smtp is sucking up all the available cpu cycles. Top shows:

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
3703 root 25 0 1848 1848 256 R 85.3 0.1 4:32 0 da-popb4smtp
4094 root 17 0 1148 1148 896 R 1.7 0.0 0:01 0 top
2973 root 16 0 47332 46M 46824 S 0.9 3.0 0:27 0 httpd
......

Anyone know why this is occuring?

TIA

 

[webquarry]

More info here:

It seems to have settled down now after 20 minutes or so.

Perhaps a better question would be:

What does this program do at startup that would keep it so busy for 20 minutes or so?

Thanks!

 

[webquarry]

Found the problem. Thought I'd post the answer just for posterity:

John at DA asked me how big the /var/log/maillog file was. It seems the da-popb4smtp parses that entire file on startup and this DA update happened to occur just before that log file was rotated, hence it was very large.

So in short, everything is normal. If this is a problem for you, you might want to rotate those logs daily rather than weekly.

 

[snaaps]

If this is a problem for you, you might want to rotate those logs daily rather than weekly.

Where can i change this rotate settings?

 

[Trans-IX B.V.]

Where can i change this rotate settings?

You can find the config file for the logrotate here:

vi /etc/logrotate.conf

Or you can use the following for more information:

man logrotate