[olug] sendmail help again (ugh)

[Dave Thacker]

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 13:08:50 Ryan Stille wrote:
> Whoo! I figured this out.  Sendmail has options to directly queue
> messages when the CPU load is over a certain limit.  Evidently this
> applies not only messages as they come in, but it affects whether
> sendmail will attempt to process anything int the queue, too.
>
> So when I ran sendmail -q and it did NOTHING, it was because the CPU
> load was over one of its limits and it therefore ignored the messages.
> I changed those limits to something reasonable, then ran sendmail -q -v,
> and its processing all the messages.

Darn, I should have remembered that.  I've been bitten by that one too. 
>
> BUT I have no idea why my load average looks like this: "load average:
> 22.00, 22.00, 22.00".  Seems kind of odd, doesn't it?  And when I run
> top, I see it pretty much staying at 99% idle.  There's not a lot going
> on on this server...
>

That's strange.  I'd reboot ASAP and watch top with one eye and basketball 
with the other.  

Dave