From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Nov 5 15:22:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA17658 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 15:22:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA17649 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 15:22:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA13225; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 00:21:51 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA17809; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 00:04:39 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971106000439.HC12592@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 00:04:39 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: al532527@campus.sin.itesm.mx (Carlos Valenzuela S.) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with Load Average!! References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Carlos Valenzuela S. on Nov 5, 1997 13:10:32 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Carlos Valenzuela S. wrote: > We have some problems with mail, when the Load Average is very hi, but > we don't know why this Average, increase to 20, 40 houres after reboot I appreciate that you're probably not speaking English very well, but the information you're providing is rather sparse so it's hard to be helpful. Did you verify with the ps command that there are no processes hanging around running wild for some reason? What version of FreeBSD are you using? Indeed, sendmail stops delivering mail if the load average goes too high, it first resorts to just queue the mail only, and will finally no longer accept connections if the load average gets higher still. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)