That's quite high for 30 users. What are the specs of that machine? On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:08:08AM -0400, Matt wrote: > > What does a "normal" mail server with about 15,000 users look like > load wise? > > > I've only got about 30 users on here right now and had them popping > their messages 1 once a minute and had another mail server sending a > ton of messages in and this is what the top display looked like: > > > 11:05am up 4 days, 0 min, 1 user, load average: 10.22, 8.70, 6.50 > > 79 processes: 72 sleeping, 7 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > > CPU states: 93.6% user, 6.3% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle > > Mem: 255656K av, 246580K used, 9076K free, 0K shrd, > 75552K buff > > Swap: 522104K av, 0K used, 522104K free > 120736K cached > > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > > 7390 root 39 0 6640 6636 1952 R 11.3 2.5 1:01 slapd > > 9949 root 39 0 6640 6636 1952 S 11.3 2.5 0:41 slapd > > 5664 root 39 0 6640 6636 1952 S 9.3 2.5 2:41 slapd > > 5661 root 39 0 6640 6636 1952 S 7.9 2.5 3:45 slapd > > 11493 root 39 0 6640 6636 1952 S 7.9 2.5 0:33 slapd > > 12626 root 39 0 6640 6636 1952 R 7.9 2.5 0:24 slapd > > 7230 root 39 0 6640 6636 1952 R 7.5 2.5 1:03 slapd > > 7231 root 39 0 6640 6636 1952 S 7.1 2.5 1:10 slapd > > 12512 root 16 0 6640 6636 1952 S 6.1 2.5 0:20 slapd > > 7238 root 39 0 6640 6636 1952 S 5.5 2.5 1:01 slapd > > 5825 root 39 0 6640 6636 1952 R 3.7 2.5 1:38 slapd > > 7458 root 39 0 6640 6636 1952 R 1.9 2.5 0:59 slapd > > 7250 root 16 0 6640 6636 1952 S 0.7 2.5 1:10 slapd > > 18352 matth 15 0 1056 1056 836 R 0.3 0.4 0:00 top > > 18548 root 16 0 1324 1324 1164 S 0.3 0.5 0:00 > qmail-lspawn > > 6846 root 15 0 1988 1988 1684 R 0.1 0.7 0:00 sshd > > > > Is that normal? > > > ~ Matt
-- Brendon Colby Systems Administrator Midcontinent Communications
