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From: aspgasd@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Alain St-Denis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: /usr/sbin/mailbox
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.144038.26297@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Date: 25 Jan 91 14:40:38 GMT
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Reply-To: astdenis@cid.aes.doe.CA
Organization: Environment Canada
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I would like to know how mailbox works. What is famd doing exactly? Why
is it using so much CPU cycles? This is a big problem when you have a
centralized /usr/mail. It can bring the server to its knees because of
intensive network traffic. Shouldn't there be a parameter to mailbox
that would allow it to poll the $MAILBOX at a lower rate?

Will SGI people care to answer? Thank you.

Alain St-Denis
Centre informatique de Dorval
Environnement Canada
astdenis@cid.aes.doe.CA
(514) 421-4697