From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 21 21:37:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA23846 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA23805 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:37:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA22643; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:37:04 -0700 Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:37:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Frank Nobis cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tweaking FreeBSD (2.1) and sendmail for a busy site? Or maybe, Help! , No more sendmail's. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If you'll note in the original message, la is not the issue. The load rarely climbs over 1.0. This is something to do with # of processes. I point out to that it appears that if la was the issue, there would be Connection Refused, rather than no connection at all. On 21 Sep 1996, Frank Nobis wrote: > Date: 21 Sep 1996 09:43:13 +0200 > From: Frank Nobis > To: Jaye Mathisen > Cc: hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Tweaking FreeBSD (2.1) and sendmail for a busy site? Or maybe, Help! , No more sendmail's. > > >>>>> "Jaye" == Jaye Mathisen writes: > > > Jaye> What else should I check? > > Sendmail has two parameters at which it starts to auto queue and later > to reject incomming messages. > > >From my sendmail.cf > > # load avg at which to auto-queue msgs > Ox3 > > # load avg at which to auto-reject connections > OX2 > > Have a look at these parms in your sendmail.cf > > Regards > Frank > -- > Frank Nobis Email: fn@Radio-do.de PGP AVAILABLE > Landgrafenstr. 130 dg3dcn http://www.radio-do.de/~fn/ > 44139 Dortmund Powered by FreeBSD Fax: +49 231 7213816 >