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To: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>
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Subject: Re: SENDMAIL rejecting connections 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:26:33 PST."
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 03:43:19 -0500
From: Andrew Arensburger <arensb@cfar.umd.edu>
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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:26:33 PST, "Randy A. Katz" wrote:
> Sorry if this question has been posed before but I'm in a small bind.
> Sendmail is saying rejecting connections on ports 25: load average (it must
> be too high). This is on a high load server. Is there any way of increasing
> the value or telling sendmail that it shouldn't turn off.

	Youbetcha!
	You should just need to tweak

# load average at which we just queue messages
O QueueLA=8

# load average at which we refuse connections
O RefuseLA=12

in your /etc/sendmail.cf (and restart sendmail, of course).

-- 
Andrew Arensburger, Systems guy         Center for Automation Research
arensb@cfar.umd.edu                     University of Maryland
      Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.