Re: [cobalt-users] Traceroute problem

[Francisco Javier Fabra Caro <jfabra@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cool! You shot in the center! Yeah, it's a problem of load average. I
didn't remember to stop a huge backup, so I made a great overload on the
morning.. Now it seems that starts to work better.

Thank u very much, Dmitry!!

Cheers!
fabRiX

El mié, 04-02-2004 a las 13:30, Dmitry Alexeyev escribió:
> Hello! 
> 
> 1) sendmail refuses to work if load averages is too high, and that may 
> cause problems, cause load averages is accumulated. You can see it by 
> running `ps auxwe' and see "sendmail: Rejecting connections" instead of 
> "Accepting connections on port 25". It's a shoot in the dark, I do not 
> know if your sendmail version supports that.
> You can see load averages with `uptime' command. 
> 
> 2) Have a look into mail queue to see how much mails are queued and not 
> yet delivered by command `mqueue'
> 
> If the load averages it too high, the one solution that I know is to 
> reboot the machine. 
> 
> If the mqueue became too bug, the you have to stop sendmail, and 
> manually clear the unneeded mails from the queue. 
> 
> But, the first thing you must do is to watch the logs. 
> Run `tail -100f /var/log/maillog' and is if there are any error 
> messages.
>  
> Best Regards,
> Dmitry
>