Bogdan TARU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > I am having a real weird problem with a newly installed Dell PowerEdge >> > 2650 which acts as a web (Apache) and mail server(Procmail). The load just >> > 'spikes' sometimes (to 40.00 or so), but immediately starts to go down.
>> Also, look in your apache and mail server log files >> to see if you're getting a burst of some sort of >> errors around that time. > I have, and found nothing there at all (looked into the system logs as > well, same outcome). i have seen email installations where a combination of scripts and procmail produce a bunch of procmails chewing on their respective emails. also, procmail can't be called a "server", if you're talking about the mail-filter. if the system spikes (you might notice by the disk(s) giving sounds if near enough), just do "ps waux |less". what is your SMTP server? do you run webmailers, or formmail(?) ? clemens To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
