In message <Pine.3.89.9405271437.E20139-0100000@is.internic.net>,
Paul Phillips writes:
> We are now running a 4000 subscriber list that gets roughly 15-20
>messages per day. Under listproc, this occasionally had a heavy impact
>on the machine, but was mostly benign. Since moving to majordomo,
>however, we have been under very high loads, often as high as 10, once
>hitting 38.
It is probably a sendmail issue, but make sure that there aren't
majordomo processes sitting around trying to get a lock on log file
etc. That will also drive the load average up on some systems, but it
doesn't usually consume major resources, it just increases the load
average. To do this use sendmail -bp or mailq to look at the queue and
see if majordomo jobs are active, then as root look at the
corresponding xf file for the job in the queue.
The xf file should be mostly empty. If it has a lot of messages about
locks, you need to change the permissions on the directories in your
majordomo installation.
-- John
John Rouillard
Senior Systems Consultant (SERL Project) University of Massachusetts at Boston
rouilj@cs.umb.edu (preferred) Boston, MA, (617) 287-6480
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