From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 5 16:40:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA28373 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 16:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumter.awod.com (awod.com [198.81.225.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA28361 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 16:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tsunami..awod.com (chsm003.awod.com [206.31.146.203]) by sumter.awod.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA28207; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 19:39:50 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960905233944.0094aa94@awod.com> X-Sender: klam@awod.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 19:39:44 -0400 To: Kurt Schafer , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Ken Lam Subject: Re: Unusual sendmail behavior ? Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 05:36 PM 9/5/96 -0400, Kurt Schafer wrote: > >Can anybody comment on their experiences with the sendmail daemon. I've noticed >that whenever I do a 'ps' I see upwards of 10 sendmail processes going at any >given time, and of those, there are always a good number of them that seem >to last for several minutes. nothing wrong with 10 active processes, I've seen averages of 25 mail processes. >The /var/spool/mqueue directory yields several 1k message sizes, which I would >think sendmail could transfer over a T1 line in a considerrably shorter >period of time than 10 minutes or more. check connectivity to the destinations (ie. port 25 usage via netstat, then do a traceroute or ping). If there is a saturated link...... what is the amount of mail received, perhaps some of your customers have subscribed to very active lists or to every list in the "internet yellow pages". -K --- Ken Lam lam@awod.com Integrated Technical Systems Systems, Networks, and Internet Solutions -- Defining Technology Today "'Plug and Play' was only applicable to the original ATARI(tm)"