KEEPING SERVER LOAD AVERAGES DOWN

Dear,

After much thinking and tweaking of sendmail configurations.

I am considering adding some code to www4mail for checking the system load
average.

It will work in two parts, 
If the load average is above 4 or something similar the process just
sleeps (it checks every 2 minutes and if the load average is still up
after 5 hours then it exits with error 75).

If the load average is over 7 then exit immediately with error code 75. It
appears that if a program exits with error 75, sendmail will just retry
during the next queue run. At least on sendmail 8.9.3 this is the error
code for temporary failures.

I would like to  received your comments on the above.

Clement Onime

Received on Monday, 15 March 1999 11:19:51 UTC