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[Drew Marshall]

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On Mon, September 12, 2005 15:15, Raul Urqueta Sierra wrote:
> Hi, I have this problem from very days ago, in the maillog file:
>
> Sep 12 10:06:34 servidor sendmail[30891]: rejecting connections on
> daemon MTA: load average: 24
>
> Sep 12 10:13:40 servidor sendmail[30891]: rejecting connections on
> daemon MTA: load average: 31
>
> Sep 12 10:14:41 servidor sendmail[541]: runqueue: Aborting queue run:
> load average too high
>
> And the server become very very slow, and don't send any mail
>
> Can anyone help please...

You have a high machine load and therefore have:

A low powered machine simply overwhelmed
A process running out of control using up the system resources

What does top give you?

Drew


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