RE: [SLUG] sendmai not sending mail but erroring with "load average" errors. .

[David Kempe]

> 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

Speaking of load average, wtf does it mean? How does it corelate to the %CPU
time as in top?
What is a too high load average? Can you get a historical %CPU time as in
the uptime command but using %CPU not load avrge?


Dave



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