recordio

Hello,

I have installed qmail since a lot of times, and just see that processus
"recordio" is eating lots of processor ressources (100% exactly) and is
blocking my other services. Can i safely remove this service from my system
?

regards,
Yoann

"Yoann Wyffels" <yoann.wyffels@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> I have installed qmail since a lot of times, and just see that processus
> "recordio" is eating lots of processor ressources (100% exactly) and is
> blocking my other services. Can i safely remove this service from my system
> ?

Yes, you should only use recordio if and when you need to.

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.

"Dave Sill" <MaxFreedom@sws5.ornl.gov> a écrit dans le message de
news:wx0he3vz70e.fsf@sws5.ornl.gov...
> "Yoann Wyffels" <yoann.wyffels@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
> > I have installed qmail since a lot of times, and just see that
processus
> > "recordio" is eating lots of processor ressources (100% exactly) and is
> > blocking my other services. Can i safely remove this service from my
system
> > ?
>
> Yes, you should only use recordio if and when you need to.
>
> --
> Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
> Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
> <http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.

So I can safely remove recordio ? It will not block incoming or outgoing
messages ?

"Yoann Wyffels" <yoann.wyffels@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> "Dave Sill" <MaxFreedom@sws5.ornl.gov> a écrit dans le message de
> news:wx0he3vz70e.fsf@sws5.ornl.gov...
> > "Yoann Wyffels" <yoann.wyffels@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> >
> > > I have installed qmail since a lot of times, and just see that
> processus
> > > "recordio" is eating lots of processor ressources (100% exactly) and is
> > > blocking my other services. Can i safely remove this service from my
> system
> > > ?
> >
> > Yes, you should only use recordio if and when you need to.
>
> So I can safely remove recordio ?

Yes, that's what I said.

> It will not block incoming or outgoing messages ?

Not if you do it right. If you're not sure, show us what you have and
tell us how you plan to remove recordio, and we'll tell you if it's
safe.

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.

"Yoann Wyffels" <yoann.wyffels@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> I will simply rename the "recordio" executable located at
> /usr/local/bin/recordio into /usr/local/bin/recordio_old in order to stop
> execution of this processus.

No, that'll break whatever command is running recordio. In an
LWQ-style installation, recordio would be run from
/service/qmail-smtpd/run, e.g.:

exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 30000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \
-u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp recordio /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1

The safe way to remove it would be to edit "recordio" out of the
script and restart the service with:

svc -t /service/qmail-smtpd

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.