Machine slow

[Billy A. Pumphrey]

Quick verification on load average if I may.

I do not understand how those numbers work.  They appear not to be
percent usage.

How do the load average numbers work? 
On my mailwatch, my usually is around .60-1.4

Billy Pumphrey
IT Manager
Wooden & McLaughlin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Chan [mailto:patrickchan at GOODMARK.COM.CN]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 2:42 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Machine slow
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using Redhat 9.0 + MailScanner 4.31.6 + clamav 0.83
> I've used MailScanner for a year. Recently, I find that my machine is
very
> slow.
> Load average is over 4.0. My users can't receive mail via ipop3d
because
> from the result of command "top", the CPU resource is used up by
> MailScanner.
> 
> When I stop using MailScanner (simply just using sendmail and procmail
to
> block certain file extension), the speed becomes normal, load average
> drops back to below 1.0
> 
> I checked maillog, there are many such messages:
> MailScanner[8280]: New Batch: Found 31 messages waiting
> 
> But those 31 messages are not the mails for my users. Those mails seem
to
> be spam mails.
> 
> Is there any good solution for this situation? Thanks very much in
> advance.

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