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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Christoph Stotz wrote: > Hello ! > > We are using hylafax to send information to our customers. Normally > about 500 faxes/day. Cool. What operating system, Linux? And what version of HylaFAX? > >From time to time we have to send more than 5000/day. Before sending we > generate all the .tif�s and > then call a batch-programm that submit�s all the faxes sequentially. > After some time > submitting becomes slower and slower and CPU-Usage by faxq gets higher: > > ps -aux | grep faxq > > uucp 5139 24.0 2.1 2552 1348 ? R Jul 21 631:16 > /usr/sbin/faxq Umm. Could we see the batch script? > We are using 200MHz Pentium Pro with 64MB of RAM and 12GB of Harddisk, > so this > should not be the problem. After 1500 jobs in the queue, the time > between two submitted jobs > is about 7-10 seconds. *1500 faxes in the queue*? Yowzah! How big is your spool partition, and could it be getting over-stuffed and slowing down? > PS: I�m suspecting that it could by a "low memory" problem, but I do not > understand whay hylafax > should use 50 MB of RAM for 1500 jobs ??? Umm. I assume you have a good chunk of swap space enabled? And are you running hfaxd from inetd or as a stand-alone daemon? Also, each job is (I think) opening a connection to hfaxd: you could be vastly over-loading your available TCP connections.... Nico Garcia Senior Engineer, CIRL Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNbdaIT/+ItycgIJRAQExlgP/bpsIpwv6s3xfRwDXXfLj11aajIcJt3Qn mnIBrD1YDz8G6eM5sNJ8aGAMiX98UWWzmssAYQbLXG9xUfqVU5tSs8iS2u79cdvC pGuZlEoBb0TbIRhAiqXo9zFAcbWU9XMvxVFQmZufYafbdbE5GO1gkfqVvf+UEm3a iDIG7oA4iAw= =WtzM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----