System load very high

[Dan Leavitt]

Ok.  I finally got the load under control but I had to comment
out the "Spam List" line, eliminating RBL checks and
turn off SpamAssassin checking to do so.   I put rbl checks
into the incoming sendmail to reduce spam somewhat.
If I turn on either of these options the load starts to climb
and time-out messages begin to appear in the log in just
a few minutes and with only a few messages in mqueue.in.

Does this give anyone any more ideas?

Thanks-again,
Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Leavitt" <dll at SCITOOLS.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: System load very high


> 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
> >
>