On my slink system (linux 2.2.9) with smail (3.2.0.102-1) the following happens since a few days (and I do not see any reason for it to happen, so I didn't change anything in the configuration of the machine in the near past ...): There are many smails running:
finanz:~ $ps aux |grep smail root 5530 0.0 0.6 1308 776 ? S 15:52 0:00 /usr/sbin/smail -bd - root 5661 0.0 0.7 1356 908 ? D 16:00 0:00 /usr/sbin/smail -bd - root 5727 0.0 0.7 1356 908 ? D 16:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/smail -bd - root 5917 0.0 0.7 1356 908 ? D 16:52 0:00 /usr/sbin/smail -bd - root 6054 0.0 0.7 1356 908 ? D 17:15 0:00 /usr/sbin/smail -bd - root 6161 0.0 0.7 1356 908 ? D 17:32 0:00 /usr/sbin/smail -bd - root 6202 0.0 0.7 1356 908 ? D 17:55 0:00 /usr/sbin/smail -bd - and in uptime, I get the following: finanz:~ $uptime 6:09pm up 34 days, 3:54, 1 user, load average: 6.00, 5.93, 5.41 (without any activity besides smail!!) (And its getting worse (so at 15:30, I killed all smail's in order to reduce the load from 24.0 [where no more mail was delivered ...] to 0, but its growing again) Any help? Thank you Clemens Heuberger -- Clemens Heuberger - Institut fuer Mathematik B, Technische Universitaet Graz Steyrergasse 30/II, A-8010 Graz, Austria. Tel: +43 316 873-5355, Fax: -5369 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://finanz.math.tu-graz.ac.at/~cheub
