Sendmail & CPU

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On 9 Jun 1999 18:56:10 -0700, sanjayk at ssdi.sony.com.sg <sanjayk at ssdi.sony.com.sg> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>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?

Time to upgrade your sendmail I'd say. Sendmail 5.x is completely
out-of-date and it's unsecure also. Go for sendmail-8.9.3, qmail or
postfix ! 

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Ralf Hildebrandt   http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb   (0)531/391-3366
Institute for Steel-Structures, Technic. Univers. of Braunschweig, Germany
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