Thanks, Alan.  All helpful info....

On Wednesday 20 March 2002 07:50 am, you wrote:
> top will show you process data
> sard will show you disk statistics providing your vendor ships that feature
> (look in proc/partitions and you should see stuff like..
> 22    64   80043264 hdd 23376 219526 1943138 1722140 14309 266197 2244104
> 2311340 0 801060 4033700 )
> vmstat will provide paging rate information (especially handy is vmstat 1)
>
> Sendmail defaults to stopping listening based on load average, the value it
> picks may be a bit low for the S/390 i/o v cpu.
>
> Look in /etc/sendmail.cf for
>
> # load average at which we just queue messages
> #O QueueLA=8
>
> # load average at which we refuse connections
> #O RefuseLA=12
>
> remove the comment, set values, and restart sendmail.
>
> The default sendmail tuning is fairly defensive for a small box. You can
> materially improve its performance, especially for stuff like mailing list
> work by tuning it. There are two favoured techniques for that. #1 is to
> get a copy of the book and/or read the sendmail faqs in full, the other
> is to replace it with exim, postfix or qmail 8)
>
>
> Alan

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