On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 13:42 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebra...@charite.de>: > > > Colleague returned from vacation today and gave some ideas. > > Today I turned off the "mail_log" and "notify" plugins and the load > > dropped considerably. Both plugins were used with default settings. > > I left all settings unchanged and examined the machine. Load stays > low, so something the way how logging is done in 2.0.x must have > changed.
Load as in I/O load or CPU load?.. If CPU, which process was eating it? I can't think of any good reason why mail_log would be doing anything that would cause such problems (other than maybe just logging too much stuff and causing problems because of that).