Sendmail & CPU

[Joseph S D Yao]

> 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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