Skipping queue run -- load average too high

[Harry Hanson]

Dual 1.6 xeon, 1gb memory, 10k rpm u320 scsi drives in raid0 config, 1gb
ram.

Freebsd 5.1

It would seem to me either an I/O issue, as the cpu rarely exceeds 5%
useage, or perhaps I have something set too low?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Raymond Dijkxhoorn
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 1:20 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Skipping queue run -- load average too high
>
> Hi!
>
> > Dec  8 18:12:30 mx01 sm-mta-in[11584]: rejecting
> connections on daemon MSA:
> > load average: 249 Dec  8 18:12:45 mx01 sm-mta-in[11584]: rejecting
> > connections on daemon MSA: load average: 194 Dec  8 18:13:02 mx01
> > sm-mta-in[11584]: rejecting connections on daemon MSA: load
> average:
> > 151 Dec
> > 8 18:13:17 mx01 sm-mta-in[11584]: rejecting connections on
> daemon MSA:
> > load
> > average: 108 Dec  8 18:13:35 mx01 sm-mta-in[11584]: rejecting
> > connections on daemon MSA: load average: 84 Dec  8 18:13:50
> mx01 sm-mta-in[11584]:
>
> With this load its most likely a undersized system. Reduce
> spam checks, disable SA and so on, to see where your problem
> is located.
>
> What system is it and whats your mail volume ?
>
> Bye,
> Raymond.
>