Date: 12 Feb 2003 20:31:39 +0100 From: "clemens fischer" <ino-qc@spotteswoode.de.eu.org> To: "Bogdan TARU" <bgd@icomag.de> Cc: "Tim Kientzle" <kientzle@acm.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gettings snapshots of load spikes Message-ID: <r8adqoro.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de> In-Reply-To: <20030210194805.A47097-100000@fw.office.icom> (Bogdan TARU's message of "Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:50:39 %2B0100 (CET)") References: <20030210194805.A47097-100000@fw.office.icom>
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Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de>: >> > I am having a real weird problem with a newly installed Dell PowerEdge >> > 2650 which acts as a web (Apache) and mail server(Procmail). The load just >> > 'spikes' sometimes (to 40.00 or so), but immediately starts to go down. >> Also, look in your apache and mail server log files >> to see if you're getting a burst of some sort of >> errors around that time. > I have, and found nothing there at all (looked into the system logs as > well, same outcome). i have seen email installations where a combination of scripts and procmail produce a bunch of procmails chewing on their respective emails. also, procmail can't be called a "server", if you're talking about the mail-filter. if the system spikes (you might notice by the disk(s) giving sounds if near enough), just do "ps waux |less". what is your SMTP server? do you run webmailers, or formmail(?) ? clemens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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