Mark! The %CPU goes up to 60 to 100 when the load gets high. The following is some of the stats I got from TOP.
CPU states: 96.4% user, 3.5% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Load= 8 CPU states: 68.1% user, 2.5% system, 0.0% nice, 29.2% idle Load=10 I want to increase the load to maybe 30 or 40 but what I want to know is whether or not will I get connection rejections because looking at the stats as it is now is with only Outgoing mail I get an impression that I will have problems when I increase the load and accept both incoming and outgoing mail. Please Advice Moloko > -----Original Message----- > From: Post, Mark K [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 23 April 2002 16:44 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sendmail Perfomance > > Moloko, > > You still have not answered the question of just how busy your S/390 CPU is > when the load average is at 10. (Not 10% as you state.) A load average > does not tell you anything about how busy the CPU is, only how many > processes are "ready to run." Try bumping your QueueLA and RefuseLA on > Linux/390 to something very large, say 99, and see what happens. But > really, look at and report %CPU busy, not load average. That really doesn't > tell us anything. > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Moloko Monyepao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sendmail Perfomance > > > I have sendmail 8.11.6-3 installed on Redhat 7.2 (server installation) on > S390(Lpar) with an IFL dedicated to this Lpar. We made the O QueueLA=10 and > the O RefuseLA=12 which is the same setup as on my Intel machine. When using > top to check the load the following is what I get. The O > MaxDaemonChildren=100 on S390 and 300 on Intel. > > Intel Machine = The Load average does not go over 10% when setup for both > incoming and outgoing mail. > > S390 Machine = The Load average goes to more than 10% and it start rejecting > connections if we set it up for both incoming and outgoing mail and it gets > up to about 6 to 8% if we only set it up for outgoing mail which is not a > lot. > > Please assist > Moloko
