[Mailman-Users] Re: qrunner with over 90% CPU

[Jon Carnes]

Sorry to pepper you with so many questions... but here are some more...
What do you get when you type:
  cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
  cat /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max

On one of my well-running RH 9 boxes, I get:

  cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
    26208

  cat /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max
    4095

You can adjust these values by becoming root and typing in something like:
  echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
  echo 2048 > /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max

Note: this is not a recommendation (well it is, but it's not *my* recommendation...)

BTW: I'm guessing that you are not running either NFS or NIS (NIS is a way of sharing user information amoung a lot of unix servers)

I also guess that hda1 is your /boot and that hda3 is /

That indicates that your install is using one IDE drive. I hope your
mail traffic is not too high! 

You might want to drop the Open Relay checks for a week and see if that
makes a difference. I'm not sure, but Sendmail may be holding open the
access.db file while it does these checks.

Jon Carnes
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On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 12:12, Paul H Byerly wrote:
> Jon Carnes wrote:
> >Are you running NFS or NIS on the server?
> 
>       I don't have NFS on the system, so I'd say NIS.
> 
> >  How big are your volumes?
> 
> hda1 is 99 Mb with 6 Mb used
> hda3 is 54 Gig with 9 gigs used
> 
> 
> >Are the errors always on trying to open "/etc/mail/access.db" or do they
> >occur for other files as well?
> 
>       All are "/etc/mail/access.db"
> 
> >Finally, what modifications (if any) have you made to Sendmail?
> 
>       Other than some open relay rejection features, nothing.
> 
> 
> <>< Paul 
>