HP DL 140 + Linux Kernel 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp

[Paul Kelly :: Blacknight]

Hi there,

Just a heads up. We recently retired an older e-mail gateway we have and 
put centos 4.3 on it. After a yum upgrade a new kernel was installed. 
Specifically Linux Kernel 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp.

MailScanner does not perform well on this hardware platform with that 
kernel, at all. Infact the load artificially goes over 30.

Anyways the fix for us was to revert to vmlinuz-2.6.9-11.ELsmp and all 
is well since. Back to processing 200k mails a day without issue.

Paul