Le 2012-09-06 19:14, Marco Fioretti a écrit : > Greetings, > I run my own email server for some domains I administer, on a centos > vps server with a very small number of users. > > The only services are smtp, imap/pop, webmail > > however, there is something that is using "much more memory than > normal" (see the comment below from the hosting sysadmin after he > checked user_beancounters). Initially we thought it was apache, but > even switching it off didn't change anything. What now? My 2 cents. You probably checked a lot of things. - a filesystem (almost) full ? - did you check the logs ? any errors ? - a user sending/receiving a large e-mail ? what is the maximum size of an e-mail in your MTA settings ? - more mail-services-related processes ? - did you try to stop mail services to see if the server usability is back ? - do you run antispam and/or antivirus on incoming/outgoing e-mails ? - to help with DNS, you can probably enable nscd or setup dnsmasq, so it would reduce DNS queries sent to DNS servers. -- Laurent. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos