Re: load average too high for sendmail

["Alexander Romanov" <Alexander_(_dot_)_Romanov_(_at_)_team_(_dot_)_ozemail_(_dot_)_com_(_dot_)_au>]

Review the following settings in sendmail.cf

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

# load average at which we refuse connections
O RefuseLA=

# load average at which we delay connections; 0 means no limit O
DelayLA=

# maximum number of children we allow at one time
O MaxDaemonChildren=

# maximum number of new connections per second
O ConnectionRateThrottle=

Those settings will reject/delay connections depending on the load on
the box.


Alex.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org [mailto:owner-misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org] On Behalf
Of J Moore
Sent: Tuesday, 17 August 2004 8:04 AM
To: misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
Subject: load average too high for sendmail


No mail was arriving, so I checked the sendmail log to find the 
following messages being logged repeatedly at 15 sec intervals:

Aug 16 03:59:56 auntbee sm-mta[24694]: rejecting connections on daemon 
MTA: load average: 41
Aug 16 03:59:56 auntbee sm-mta[24694]: rejecting connections on daemon 
MTA6: load average: 41
Aug 16 03:59:56 auntbee sm-mta[24694]: rejecting connections on daemon 
MSA: load average: 41
Aug 16 03:59:56 auntbee sm-mta[24694]: rejecting connections on daemon 
MSA6: load average: 41
Aug 16 04:00:01 auntbee sm-msp-queue[18586]: runqueue: Skipping queue 
run -- load average too high

I re-booted immediately which of course cleared the problem, but then 
realized I may have destroyed the opportunity to learn what caused the 
problem.

Anyone have any insight here in terms of where I could look to discover 
which processes caused the problem, or what I should do next time to 
preserve debugging data?

Thanks,
Jay