Re: [cobalt-users] Overloaded Server?

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Go to the mque and delete the mail in there that is rejecting see if that
helps.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 1:23 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Overloaded Server?


> Can anyone help with this one...
>
> I've got a client who's got a Cobalt RaQ3.  Last night he started
> running "SubscribeMe" to send an email to a list of 17,000 addresses.
>
> This morning he got a message from the RaQ3s monitor telling him that
> sendmail wasn't accepting messages.
>
> It's not.
>
> Here's a partial of what "ps aux | grep sendmail" shows:
>
> root      2576  0.1  0.4  2088 1144 ?        S    11:08   0:00 sendmail:
> rejecti
>
> If I restart sendmail (# kill -HUP 2576) I get
>
> root      2577  0.1  0.4  2088 1144 ?        S    11:08   0:00 sendmail:
> accepti
>
> for a while, but later it becomes
>
> root      2577  0.1  0.4  2088 1144 ?        S    11:08   0:00 sendmail:
> rejecti
>
> again.
>
> Nothing in the bat book to indicate what's going on.
>
> Here's a top:
>
>  11:06am  up 37 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.21, 0.28, 0.26
> 44 processes: 43 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  0.7% user,  1.9% system,  0.0% nice, 97.2% idle
> Mem:  257964K av,  81192K used, 176772K free,  79976K shrd,  15420K buff
> Swap: 131536K av,      0K used, 131536K free                 35764K
> cached
>
>
> Here's a df:
>
> # df
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1               743466    489064    254402  66% /
> /dev/hda3               198601     17717    180884   9% /var
> /dev/hda4             13380124    872507  12507617   7% /home
>
> The mqueue directory has 2683 files in it.
>
> We've tried rebooting the server as well, since email the RaQ3 sent us
> recommended that.  Didn't work (of course <wry grin>).
>
> We think this is simply an overload condition.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Jeff
> --
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