Try running a vmstat with a delay of 1 or 2 seconds and send the output. Which OS is this? What's the speed of the processors?
How are you doint the delivery? using procmail? with a program you wrote? are you running an anti-virus? regards, -Oscar On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 09:08 AM, Matt wrote: > What does a �normal� mail server with about 15,000 users look like load > wise? > > � > > I�ve only got about 30 users on here right now and had them popping their > messages 1 once a minute and had another mail server sending a ton of > messages in and this is what the top display looked like: > > � > > 11:05am� up 4 days, 0 min,� 1 user,� load average: 10.22, 8.70, 6.50 > > 79 processes: 72 sleeping, 7 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > > CPU states: 93.6% user,� 6.3% system,� 0.0% nice,� 0.0% idle > > Mem:�� 255656K av,� 246580K used,��� 9076K free,������ 0K shrd,�� 75552K > buff > > Swap:� 522104K av,������ 0K used,� 522104K free����������� ������120736K > cached > > � > > � PID USER���� PRI� NI� SIZE� RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM�� TIME COMMAND > > �7390 root����� 39�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 R��� 11.3� 2.5��1:01slapd > > �9949 root����� 39�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 S��� 11.3� 2.5�� 0:41 slapd > > �5664 root����� 39�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 S���� 9.3� 2.5��2:41slapd > > �5661 root����� 39�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 S���� 7.9� 2.5��3:45slapd > > 11493 root����� 39�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 S���� 7.9� 2.5�� 0:33 slapd > > 12626 root����� 39�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 R���� 7.9� 2.5�� 0:24 slapd > > �7230 root����� 39�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 R���� 7.5� 2.5��1:03slapd > > �7231 root����� 39�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 S���� 7.1� 2.5��1:10slapd > > 12512 root����� 16�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 S���� 6.1� 2.5�� 0:20 slapd > > �7238 root����� 39�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 S���� 5.5� 2.5��1:01slapd > > �5825 root����� 39�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 R���� 3.7� 2.5��1:38slapd > > �7458 root����� 39�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 R���� 1.9� 2.5�� 0:59 slapd > > �7250 root����� 16�� 0� 6640 6636� 1952 S���� 0.7� 2.5��1:10slapd > > 18352 matth���� 15�� 0� 1056 1056�� 836 R���� 0.3� 0.4�� 0:00 top > > 18548 root����� 16�� 0� 1324 1324� 1164 S���� 0.3� 0.5�� 0:00 qmail-lspawn > > �6846 root����� 15�� 0� 1988 1988� 1684 R���� 0.1� 0.7�� 0:00 sshd > > � > > � > > Is that normal?�� > > � > > ~ Matt > > -- pgp fingerprint: BC64 2E7A CAEF 39E1 9544 80CA F7D5 784D FB46 16C1
