Skipping queue run -- load average too high

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Harry Hanson [mailto:harryh at CET.COM]
> Envoyé : Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:17 PM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Re: Skipping queue run -- load average too high
> 
> 
> Dual 1.6 xeon, 1gb memory, 10k rpm u320 scsi drives in raid0 
> config, 1gb
> ram.

What is your daily mail volume?
> 
> 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?
> 
If you've got vmstat on freebsd, use it... type vmstat 1.

this will tell you if you have processes waiting for I/O.  (see man vmstat)
> 
> 
> > -----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.
> >
>