Re: slow POP3

Steve Shah (sshah@cs.ucr.edu)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:19:00 -0700

Are the DNS forwarders slow to respond? Are you sure the forwarding
DNS servers are correct? How large are the messages? Are the messages
being read from an NFS mounted disk? If so, is the NFS server congested?
Which POP3 server are you using? (If you are using QPopper, do you
have the latest version? A few months back there was an ugly
security hole discovered in that required updating the software.)

-Steve

On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:00:27PM +0200, Klaus Schmidt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we have installed the POP3 server on a linux system with kernel
> 2.0.35.
>
> But sometimes it is fast, mostly it is very slow. The first
> 10 to 15 Mails arrive normally in an aceptable speed, but after
> this there are many periods of inactivity (ca. 2 to 5 seconds)
> between the messages.
>
> There is an own name server on the same machine.
>
> Has anybody made the same experience and some tips to speed up
> the POP3 server.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Greetings
> Klaus
>
>
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