On Fri, Dec 01, 2006, Patrick - South Valley Internet wrote: > It appears it has something to do with the box that Postfix is on. The > load averages on that box were up to 8.00 yesterday, and now they are > around 1.60, but that's still a little high. I'm not sure what's wrong > with the box, but it appears it has something to do with that.
Unix loadavg isn't that good an indicator of high load. It means that there were N running (or waiting to run) processes, samples taken every 5 seconds and an average pulled out from them from last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. Machines running lots of processes being low on CPU often have higher loadavg than a machine that runs one process all the time, without sleeping in syscalls. Anyway, high load average doesn't cause the mail queue to break. If Postfix says the message was delivered and it wasn't, try getting support from a Postfix supplier. -- Unix stuff :: http://tehran.lain.pl Yet Another RBL :: http://rbl.lain.pl -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
