From: "John Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:37 PM Subject: Huge load average on mail server
> I recently became responsible for our mail server, and lately, the load > average on the thing has been running consistently high, in mid-20's to > mid-30's. And at the same time, sendmail has become extremely sluggish > in terms of responding to connections on port 25. > > There's got to be a bottleneck somewhere, but my experience leaves me > ill-equipped to seek it out. > > What procedures would folks recommend for me to follow in order to try and > determine the problem? > > Thank you, > > john In addition to other thoughts on this thread, if it IS the MTA: Examine queues; attempt to find patterns in logs, check DNS speed/configuration, check disks, memory, etc. KDK _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"