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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:37:46 -0700
From:      John Fox <jjf@mind.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Huge load average on mail server
Message-ID:  <20030723213746.GT63060@mind.net>

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I recently became responsible for our mail server, and lately, the load
average on the thing has been running consistently high, in mid-20's to
mid-30's.  And at the same time, sendmail has become extremely sluggish
in terms of responding to connections on port 25.

There's got to be a bottleneck somewhere, but my experience leaves me
ill-equipped to seek it out.

What procedures would folks recommend for me to follow in order to try and
determine the problem?

Thank you,

john
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