Hello List, We're having a problem with a mailserver. The machine does about 11,000 msgs a day. At heaviest times smtp concurrency goes up to 60/150 or 70/150. During these times load avg goes up to 20, and syslog is eating %70 of CPU. At that point the messages and maillog files are at say 20M each. If we dev/null the logs, load returns to 1 2 or 3 load avg. I saw a few articles in the archives about this. Seems that syslog isn't up to the task. Comments, on whether syslog is the culprit, and what logging mechanism to switch to welcome? Server is a PII 128MB 12GB RH5.0 running tcpserver Many Thanks - eric + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Spark Sistemas E-mail - presentado por IWCC Argentina S.A. Tel: 4702-1958 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +