Yep.. found it... <smacking head on wall>damn stupid of me and didn't notice
it...</smacking head on wall>

I built another kick ass PIII866 Linux server and I forgot there was an NFS
mounted on it...

ps -ef | sort -rn +5  didn't show much CPU usage but GKrellM did show heaps.
The console was full of errors about NFS and I realise the new kcik butt
server was shutdown and moved..

SO my server spat the dummy and slowed the server down.... oooOOO never
again..
I even had trouble shutting netfs down...

All seems OK now after..

thanks guys.


thanks,
George Vieira


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Petre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 1:39 PM
To: George Vieira; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] sendmai not sending mail but erroring with "load
average" errors. .



George,

if memory serves correct, sendmail  will cease to process the queue once
the load average reaches 8, and will stop accepting SMTP connects at a LA
of 12.

If you need to change the load points of the queue and the connects, add
the following to your sendmail.cf: (assuming you have 8.7 or higher)

O QueueLA=<load>
O RefuseLA=<load>

* replace <load> with an integer value for the load average.

That said, I'd suggest you try and reduce the load on your machine before
adding to it with the sendmail proc's ...

Cheers,

Jeff Petre
IT/Operations Administrator
Platform Architecture and System Tools
IBM Global Services Australia
Tel: +61-2-9396-9416
Fax: +61-2-9396-8500
E-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
             [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Hi all,

I just had to stop my sendmail and restart it and it now complains that the
queue load average is too big and I can't get it to work again..

runqueue: Skipping queue run -- load average too high

I tied nuking anything in the /var/spool/mqueue/* since they were dodgy
bounces anyway and it didn't help.

Any ideas? ASAP would be greatly appreciated..

thanks,
George Vieira



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