Skipping queue run -- load average too high

[Harry Hanson]

> > -----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?

Here's and example from midnight to current time:

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> > 
> > 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)

My apoligies; I am rather a newbie with freebsd; this is my first. Here's a
current snapshot (tho I have to read the man page more; it scrolls
coninually and not sure how to interpret the output): 


procs      memory      page                    disks     faults      cpu
 r b w     avm    fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr aa0 aa1   in   sy  cs us sy
id
 0 0 0  224380 314004 11724   0   0   0 10377   0  17   0  533    0 2964 34
28 38
 0 1 0  224896 313344  147   0   0   0  41   0   3  57  688    0 1570  2 11
87
 0 0 1  221424 315056   48   0   0   0 469   0   0   5  445    0 595  0  4
96
 0 1 1  224296 313860  331   0   0   0  80   0   0  26  553    0 927  1  5
94
 0 0 1  224332 313400  124   0   0   0  43   0   0  32  626    0 1106  1  5
94
 0 0 1  226080 312884 5447   0   0   0 4632   0   8  32  660    0 1577 16 13
71
 0 0 1  222444 314720  178   0   0   0 685   0   0  56  714    0 1401  1  8
91
 0 0 1  222940 314612  292   0   0   0 305   0   0  30  492    0 782  0  4
96
 0 0 1  223712 314196  113   0   0   0  13   0   0   0  404    0 488  0  4
96
 0 0 3  233728 311680 5302   0   0   0 4153   0  10   0  490    0 981  9 15
76
 0 0 1  220824 315280 3880   0   0   0 4300   0   2   0  593    0 1151 14 10
76
 0 0 1  219360 315836  266   0   0   0 436   0   0  24  553    0 929  1  4
95
 0 2 1  220908 315104  468   0   0   0 315   0   0   7  607    0 1027  1  7
92
 0 0 1  219352 316120  256   0   0   0 557   0   0  43  602    0 1086  1  5
94
 0 1 2  224964 313308 6070   0   0   0 4839   0  20   9  518    0 1083 11 16
72
 0 0 0  221508 315068 3038   0   0   0 3045   0   0  17  641    0 1304 16  8
76
 0 0 0  221552 315000  135   0   0   0 130   0   0  11  496    0 744  0  6
94
 0 0 0  220272 315616  117   0   0   0 303   0  11  36  540    0 914  1  4
95
 0 0 0  220264 315652  362   0   0   0 387   0   0   9  517    0 777  1  4
95
 0 1 1  223036 314032 4288   0   0   0 3483   0  12  19  567    0 1294 11 13
76
 0 0 0  218800 316340 2958   0   0   0 3155   0   0  57  797    0 3355 13 18
69
 0 0 0  215380 318212  488   0   0   0 971   0   0   9  540    0 855  0  7
92
 procs      memory      page                    disks     faults      cpu