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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