On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Homer Wilson Smith wrote: > sendmail and qpopper exist on same machine. > > The machine is being flooded by spam etc driving load > high. This affects perceived responsiveness of popper.
It's not your popper playing up, nor is it your sendmail, it's your spam filtering. > Maybe I got this backwards, maybe 100's of sendmail's driving my load > to 40 and a few poppers driving it to 1 or 2 is my mis configuration error > :) Hint: Look at the MaxDaemonChildren and Throttle parameters in sendmail.cf At a LA of 40, your machine is dead anyway. It should be refusing inbound connections at around 6-12 and you should limit the number of concurrent connections somewhat. The mailserver I had handling 1-2 million messages/day was only a k6/400. Tweaking sendmail makes a big difference. AB
