At 4:51 PM +0000 3/25/00, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
> >>> Does anyone have any idea what could be the problem? The
>>>> disk IO is very low and my computer is *really* sleeping,
>>>> with a load average (uptime etc) of approx. 1.4..
>>> A loadaverage of 1.4 means you have on average 1.4 task waiting to run. Or,
>>> to put it in percentages: your machine has 140% of it's time filled with
>>> tasks that want to run.
>>> Even for an idle quad Xeon, that is way to high.
>> I agree. I manage a similar system (quad Xeon, 1GB memory) with a
>> loadaverage of 0.3 or thereabouts.
>> Although I'm not familiar with the intricacies of how load is
>> distributed across multiple CPUs among different OS's, I would suspect
>> something is wrong with your system.
>
>Ok, the average of 1.4 was taken at the start of this discussion,
>with great activity. The load average is now down to 0.7 and
>dropping.
>
>My point was: qmail should interpret 25% of this load as the
>capability of these computers are 4x what a normal computer
>can handle with the same configuration in 1x.
>
>I want mail delivery to go much faster, the computer can do
>much better than this!!! I want the qmail-send program to deliver
>4x as many mails.
But qmail doesn't "know" what the load on your machine is, or how
many processors are available. Scheduling of processes is controlled
by the operating system, not the processes themselves. There might
be something wrong with the way your OS is set up.
There are things that you can do to "tune" a qmail installation, like
setting concurrency remote. IIRC they're covered by "Life with
qmail". Start at www.qmail.org.
>
>Andreas
>
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