System load very high

[Dan Leavitt]

Hi,

Drat.   The system load has once again climbed sky-high - it's currently at 39!   Sendmail is refusing connections and all of my
MailScanner processes show in the run-state and near the top 6 with top.

I get frequent SpamAssassin timeout messages and until today was also getting InfinteMonkeys and ORD-RBL timeouts as well.  I've
removed the RBL settings from MailScanner.conf and implemented same in sendmail.cf and they seem to work fine with no timeouts.

Can someone give me some ideas what to look for with this.   I've seen others in the past with similar problems but I haven't been
able to find their solutions in the FAQ or anywhere.

The system died before this message got sent, but interestingly, when
it was rebooted, it handled the 150 or so backed up messages in
relatively short order.  It had been up for about 3 months.

Thanks,
Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Peters" <P.G.M.Peters at CIV.UTWENTE.NL>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: Palyh-A virus


> On Mon, 19 May 2003 06:41:54 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >Thanks to MailScanner, three .pif attachments that included Palyh-A were
> >stopped before Sophos had an updated definition!
>
> It is called W32/Sobig.B at mm by f-prot.
>
> --
> Peter Peters, senior netwerkbeheerder
> Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
> Universiteit Twente,  Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
> telefoon: 053 - 489 2301, fax: 053 - 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/civ
>