System load very high

[Dan Leavitt]

Nah, it definately wan't sendmail.   There were 150 files
in mqueue.in and nothing in mqueue and, when I
reluctantly stopped MS, started sendmail and moved
the files from mqueue.in to mqueue, sendmail delivered
all in seconds - most, if not all, were for local delivery.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joan Bryan" <joan.bryan at KCL.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: System load very high


> Hi
>
> We had a problem whereby when the load average went very high (not
> due to  mailscanner and we don't run spamassassin yet) sendmail
> processed entries in the mail queues intermittently. Once the QueueLA
> parameter, which controls the level of Load Average at which sendmail
> stops processing, was adjusted in the sendmail config file this
> cleared the problem for us.
>
> HTH
>
> Joan
> ----------------------
> Joan Bryan
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Information Systems
> mailto:joan.bryan at kcl.ac.uk
>