Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:55:49 -0500 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "John Fox" <jjf@mind.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Huge load average on mail server Message-ID: <106b01c35186$b62a2a30$0441d5cc@nitanjared> References: <20030723213746.GT63060@mind.net>
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From: "John Fox" <jjf@mind.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:37 PM Subject: Huge load average on mail server > 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 In addition to other thoughts on this thread, if it IS the MTA: Examine queues; attempt to find patterns in logs, check DNS speed/configuration, check disks, memory, etc. KDK
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