[H-GEN] Logwatch - sendmail loadaverage?

[Bradley Marshall]

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:02:23AM +1000, David Jericho wrote:
> Bradley Marshall wrote:
> >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
> Don't edit the sendmail.cf file directly. It's apparently bad voodoo. 
> Eric Allman says so. It'd be like editing the Windows registry by hand 
> instead of using the appropriate clicky tool.

Well, yes.  The first step here would be to find out why the
machine is having a load of 8 - if it's supposed to be only
lightly loaded, its not a good thing.

Thanks,
Brad
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Brad Marshall
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