From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 22:23:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0BE37B74E for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 22:23:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01954; Sun, 28 May 2000 00:23:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 00:23:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Rob Cc: Don Read , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail delays In-Reply-To: <20000527144239.B7580@theo.namodn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 27 May 2000, Rob wrote: > On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 11:26:21AM -0500, Don Read wrote: > > > We are experiencing delays with local delivery on our mail server. > > > I looked up the message ID's on a couple of the ones I found, and I did > > > not see anything odd. Here's an example ( names blotted out to protect > > > What is your load average (uptime) ? > > smtp# uptime > 2:35PM up 43 days, 14:24, 5 users, load averages: 4.08, 4.02, 4.01 > This could very well be your problem. Check your running processes when you notice these delays and see which are trying to hog your CPU time. Handling inordinately large messages resulting in a lot of disk i/o is one of the possible causes. Check your logs to see what other email is being processed when the delays occur, it could just as easily be someone sending bulk email through your server. Or it could be high time for a hardware upgrade. :) > > > and your QueueLA in /etc/sendmail.cf ? > > We do not have this explicitly set. > What would be a good number considering our load > average? > I think 5 is quite reasonable. I'd see to it that I reduced the load before letting it engage in a vicious circle of processing even more mail and increasing the load above what it already is. It's a matter of what you think is practical. hth -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message