Recently, Dave Barr proclaimed,
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> In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.950421163707.25754F-100000@mtvernon1.basenet.net>, IS
> BeEN writes:
> >
> >Hi all.. well, after switching from perl5 back to perl4 I feel like I'm
> >actually getting somewhere :) -- now I CAN get domo to respond to a help
> >request from a user.. but it almost KILLS the system.. the load shoots
> >through the ROOF (it was up to over 15 before we killed it) &
>
> Strange. Have you modified your sendmail.cf or the flags to sendmail?
> It sounds as if sendmail is forking off a copy of itself for each
> recipient.
Allow me to drop in a question at this point. I run Majordomo on a Linux
box, using Smail and Perl4. I too have been having trouble with the
excessive load incoming mail directed at a list or majordomo causes.
As Dave suggests, at least in my case my MTA indeed seems to be forking off
a copy of itself for each recipient. I can see thing go awry when
my system has to start dealing with ten simultaneous Perl processes, which
brings my 386 to a virtual standstill.
I am loocking for ways to go through all incoming traffic in a more
sequential, queued manner, in stead of the current mess. I don't know
however, if I have to start digging into my Smail config, or whether this
is a Majordomo feature I have to live with. Or do I have to install
Sendmail, since I get the impression around here that Smail is Not Good
for handling Majordomo lists.
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