[H-GEN] Logwatch - sendmail loadaverage?

[Bradley Marshall]

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:24:04AM +1000, Tony Melia (DMS) wrote:
> 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!);
> 
> Sendmail...
> Connections Rejected due to load average::
>     Load Avg 12: 3 Times(s)
>     Load Avg 13: 2 Times(s)
>     Load Avg 14: 3 Times(s)

Sendmail is configured to start just queuing messages at a
certain load, and then start refusing connections entirely at
another (higher) load.

The sendmail.cf config is:
  O QueueLA=8
  O RefuseLA=12

You can change the load that these things happen at easily,
but your best bet would be to find out what is causing the
high load at that particular time.

Thanks,
Brad
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Brad Marshall
brad at humbug.org.au
http://quark.humbug.org.au/

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