On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote: > Hi, > > I just setuped a new server. It is only running postfix at this time, > relaying mail from another server. > > The distribution is RedHat 7.3 with all of the updates. > > There is a large amount of mail in the queue (about 17k mails). > > The load average goes upto 8.x. If I kill postfix, it goes back down to > 0.x. The strange thing is that top shows that the cpu usage is pretty low: > CPU0 states:1.2% user, 3.2% system, 0.4% nice, 95.1% idle > CPU1 states:1.4% user, 2.3% system, 0.4% nice, 95.3% idle
Looks like the machine is over-swapping. > > Hardware is not the problem. The machine is a dual Athlon MP 2000 with > 1GB of DDRAM and 2 IDE hdds with 8MB cache in RAID1. It should be able > to handle that kind of work without any problem. > > I'm using ext3. > > Any ideas/suggestions? Maybe limit the number of postfix processes (of some kind?) Use postfix's various concurrecy limitations. Have a look at http://postfix.openu.ac.il/rate.html -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:tzafrir@;technion.ac.il http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
