Hello All,
I got Mandriva 2006 and while everything is fine, since many days I notice that whenever I use thunderbird, it shows a lot of HDD activity and opening new messages and moving to the next ones is too slow, as the HDD shows busy activity. The /log/messages show the following report below as the activity takes place. I even downgraded from Thunderbird 1.5 to 1.0.6 but still same problem. Browsing is no problem. I even uninstalled clamv in case it was scanning mail but still same problem. Has my system got a linix based spyware? ( Calm down guys! ) What is the net activity below? I have set the mailbox to manual mail download only. Below is the log. Is this anything to do with the reiserfs?
Sep 8 22:01:26 mandrake06 kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=198 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=39 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=178 Sep 8 22:01:57 mandrake06 kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=198 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=40 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=178 Sep 8 22:02:31 mandrake06 kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=198 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=41 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=178
Regards,
Rony.
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Rony wrote:
notice that whenever I use thunderbird, it shows a lot of HDD activity and opening new messages and moving to the next ones is too slow, as the HDD shows busy activity. The /log/messages show the following report
Same here running Tbird on Ubuntu.
[Fri, 08/09/06 at 22:12 +0530] Rony wrote:
and opening new messages and moving to the next ones is too slow, as the HDD shows busy activity.
*Yawns*... thats the way it is. An elephant rarely moves faster...
Are you having huge mailboxes? Try compacting them once a while.
TB is one email client which will not automatically compact your folders, letting them inflate like a balloon.
Anand Nene wrote:
Are you having huge mailboxes? Try compacting them once a while.
TB is one email client which will not automatically compact your folders, letting them inflate like a balloon.
Yup, that appears to be the problem. But In all my other distros, thunderbird did it automatically. I still don't know why there was the net activity then. Anyway thanks.
Regards,
Rony.
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On 9/8/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hello All,
I got Mandriva 2006 and while everything is fine, since many days I notice that whenever I use thunderbird, it shows a lot of HDD activity and opening new messages and moving to the next ones is too slow, as the HDD shows busy activity. The /log/messages show the following report below as the activity takes place. I even downgraded from Thunderbird 1.5 to 1.0.6 but still same problem. Browsing is no problem. I even uninstalled clamv in case it was scanning mail but still same problem. Has my system got a linix based spyware? ( Calm down guys! ) What is the net activity below? I have set the mailbox to manual mail download only. Below is the log. Is this anything to do with the reiserfs?
Sep 8 22:01:26 mandrake06 kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=198 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=39 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=178 Sep 8 22:01:57 mandrake06 kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=198 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=40 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=178 Sep 8 22:02:31 mandrake06 kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=198 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=41 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=178
Dear Rony,
Port 631 is used by CUPS for the IPP(Internet Printing Protocol) broadcast. It's basically broadcasting to discover shared printers connected to systems on the same lan as you. I can also see that you have shorewall active, and these are log entries of shorewall telling you that it dropped such-and-such packets. And Relax, there is *NO* spyware activity evident on your system from the messages that you have posted.
Regards R. K. Rajeev
Regards,
Rony.
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Rajeev R. K. wrote:
Port 631 is used by CUPS for the IPP(Internet Printing Protocol) broadcast. It's basically broadcasting to discover shared printers connected to systems on the same lan as you. I can also see that you have shorewall active, and these are log entries of shorewall telling you that it dropped such-and-such packets. And Relax, there is *NO* spyware activity evident on your system from the messages that you have posted.
Rajeev, thanks for the detailed information.
Regards,
Rony.
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