Skipping queue run -- load average too high

[Errol Neal]

At 12:19 AM 12/9/2003, Harry Hanson wrote:
>Is this due to mailscanner or MTA (sendmail)? Does it simply hold the queue
>to rescan later? Is there some tuning that can be done to alleviate this?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>Dec  8 18:34:31 mx01 sm-mta-in[11584]: rejecting connections on daemon MSA:
>load average: 52
>Dec  8 18:34:49 mx01 sm-mta-in[11584]: rejecting connections on daemon MSA:
>load average: 40
>Dec  8 18:35:04 mx01 sm-mta-in[11584]: rejecting connections on daemon MSA:
>load average: 31
>Dec  8 18:35:19 mx01 sm-mta-in[11584]: rejecting connections on daemon MSA:
>load average: 24


This behavior is set in the sendmail.mc/.cf file. It basically tells the
daemon at to stop
accepting connections at a certain load average. One setting also tells the
daemon to
only begin only queuing messages at a certain LA. Those settings are
defined in your .mc as:

confQUEUE_LA
confREFUSE_LA

In your .cf they are:

# load average at which we just queue messages
O QueueLA

# load average at which we refuse connections
O RefuseLA

The load average on your systems can be determined by using 'uptime' or top.


Best Regards,


Errol Neal