[H-GEN] Logwatch - sendmail loadaverage?

[Raymond Smith]

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DMS said:
> I have a RH9 box running sendmail for about 20 light mail users, I get
> the following error listed in logwatch.  Couldn't find anything in
> google groups or web search, anybody know what causes it (other than
> hogh load average!);

You haven't included the time. Could it be that there are a
large number of cron jobs running at the same time? Or a cron
job that chews a lot of memory (ie pushes the machine to swap)?
These have been the causes of load problems that I have seen
on otherwise unloaded servers.

Cheers,

Raymond
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raymond at humbug.org.au



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