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Date:      Thu, 6 Nov 1997 00:04:39 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        al532527@campus.sin.itesm.mx (Carlos Valenzuela S.)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with Load Average!!
Message-ID:  <19971106000439.HC12592@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.971105130816.21532B-100000@campus.sin.itesm.mx>; from Carlos Valenzuela S. on Nov 5, 1997 13:10:32 -0700
References:  <Pine.A32.3.91.971105130816.21532B-100000@campus.sin.itesm.mx>

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As Carlos Valenzuela S. wrote:

> We have some problems with mail, when the Load Average is very hi, but
> we don't know why this Average, increase to 20, 40 houres after reboot

I appreciate that you're probably not speaking English very well, but
the information you're providing is rather sparse so it's hard to be
helpful.

Did you verify with the ps command that there are no processes hanging
around running wild for some reason?

What version of FreeBSD are you using?

Indeed, sendmail stops delivering mail if the load average goes too
high, it first resorts to just queue the mail only, and will finally
no longer accept connections if the load average gets higher still.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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