From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 10:30:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730B337BFB4 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:30:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA32387 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:51:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <3963703D.7F0E0377@wmptl.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 13:28:29 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: understanding load averages (sendmail) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What are the values in sendmail.cf indicative of when they say 'Level at which messages are just queued', and 'Level at which messages are refused'. The defaults are 8 and 12 respectfully, but what do these numbers mean? 8 simultainious messages, 8% of the server's usage, 80% of the server's usage? What would be an appropriate setting for a mid-traffic'd (3000 users) host? -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message