Sendmail & CPU
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Thu Jun 10 16:35:41 UTC 1999
> This is regarding High CPU utilisation.
> Sendmail 5.0/SMI-SVR4 is running on Solaris 2.5. Observed by running
> 'top'
> utility that CPU utilisation is high (from 5 to 30) and sendmail is using
> more than half
> of the CPU utilisation. But whenever sendmail restarted
> (/etc/rc2.d/S88sendmail)
> observed CPU utilisation gradually decreases.
> Sendmail is running in daemon mode i.e., sendmail -bd -q1h
> Any Idea why sendmail is having such a high utilisation? Anything can be
> done to
> avoid such a high cpu utililsation?
There may be any of several loops that are fixed in current versions of
sendmail. Or it may be merely co-incidental. But you should really
ask in a Sendmail mailing list, not in a BIND mailing list. Eh?
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Joe Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
COSPO/OSIS Computer Support EMT-B
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