Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 19:39:44 -0400 From: Ken Lam <klam@awod.com> To: Kurt Schafer <kurt@cyberbeach.net>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unusual sendmail behavior ? Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19960905233944.0094aa94@awod.com>
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At 05:36 PM 9/5/96 -0400, Kurt Schafer wrote: > >Can anybody comment on their experiences with the sendmail daemon. I've noticed >that whenever I do a 'ps' I see upwards of 10 sendmail processes going at any >given time, and of those, there are always a good number of them that seem >to last for several minutes. nothing wrong with 10 active processes, I've seen averages of 25 mail processes. >The /var/spool/mqueue directory yields several 1k message sizes, which I would >think sendmail could transfer over a T1 line in a considerrably shorter >period of time than 10 minutes or more. check connectivity to the destinations (ie. port 25 usage via netstat, then do a traceroute or ping). If there is a saturated link...... what is the amount of mail received, perhaps some of your customers have subscribed to very active lists or to every list in the "internet yellow pages". -K --- Ken Lam lam@awod.com Integrated Technical Systems Systems, Networks, and Internet Solutions -- Defining Technology Today "'Plug and Play' was only applicable to the original ATARI(tm)"
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