RE: [cobalt-developers] Replacing sendmail

["Oren Teich" <teich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Replying to my own post to let you/everyone know that the problem is
> back.
> 
> Cobalt's email to admin is letting us know that sendmail will stop
> itself when the box becomes overloaded.  I've pretty much figured out
> the problem is based on how many children we're running, but
> nevertheless I want Cobalt to help us with advice on this... How many
> children may we safely run on their hardware for example.
>


In /etc/sendmail.cf look for the line:


# load average at which we just queue messages
O QueueLA=15

This states that sendmail gives up when the load average gets above 15.

uptime will show you the load average.

Oren Teich
Cobalt Networks