my mail server is drowning

[Tony Finch]

"Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick at COLBY.EDU> wrote:
>
>I don't think it is lack of memory, just a high number of processes and
>a lot of process switching that is causing the "pi" number to be high
>in "vmstat".

The pi number also counts pages being read in from files.

Tony.
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