System load is very high because of MailScanner

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Steen, Glenn wrote:
> BG Mahesh wrote:
> 
>>Few have responded that it is ok to have a high load average.
>>However, if I can tune it well and good. hence I am still responding
>>to few emails.  
>>
> 
> (snipped stats that show a somewhat high load... But the sar and vmstat
> show nothing special)
> 
>>
>>--
>>B.G. Mahesh
>>bg.mahesh at indiainfo.com
>>http://www.indiainfo.com/
> 
> 
> Count the processes in state D (non-interruptible wait state). I'm
> sure you'll see that it is this that is "artificially pushing the load
> upward" (each will add 1 to the load average).
> 
> Unless you see large MS batches (in the maillog), your system seems to
> be chugging along nicely.
> 

Ugo draws the same conclusion.  How many child process do you have
configured?

> -- Glenn
> 

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