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>>I was watching cbm on one of my machines and it showed a lot more |
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>>traffic going in and out over lo than over both of the two real |
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>>interfaces. Is that normal? One of those two real interfaces is |
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>>completely unused and shows zeros in cbm all the time. |
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>>- Grant |
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> Yes, I would consider this normal. |
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> What is running on that machine? |
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> 'lo' is used for all traffic between localhost and localhost. |
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> IOW, all internal communications, like apache talking to the database if both running on the same host. |
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> Or postfix to amavis to postfix before mail gets delivered. |
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I had no idea. Thank you Joost. |
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- Grant |
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