Topic: too many pops

[Pete the Feet]

Hiya

In /var/log/messages.20030908011206, for example, seeing plenty of these:

Sep 11 15:52:02 mail xinetd[886]: Deactivating service pop-3 due to excessive incoming connections.  Restarting in 10 seconds. Sep 11 15:52:12 mail xinetd[886]: Activating service pop-3 Sep 11 15:54:01 mail xinetd[886]: Deactivating service pop-3 due to excessive incoming connections.  Restarting in 10 seconds. Sep 11 15:54:11 mail xinetd[886]: Activating service pop-3

I'm connecting with a POP3 plugin from an exchange server. Is there any way to stop the e-smith box from deactivating the pop-3 service?

The e-smith box is running 5.6 on a p3 700 with 64MB RAM.

[Schotty]

With only 64MB Ram?? Must be a mistake -or not?


Schotty

[Pete the Feet]

Unfortunately not.

3:38pm  up 1 day, 25 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.05, 1.01, 0.94
81 processes: 77 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.1% user,  0.1% system, 99.6% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:    60724K av,   59332K used,    1392K free,       0K shrd,   12380K buff
Swap:  265064K av,   14988K used,  250076K free                   12968K cached

Doesn't look too clever does it?

I'm really just wondering whether putting more RAM in the box will help.

I canned squid as the machine is only going to be used as a mailserver in front of our win2K sloth.