> > default_process_limit is set to what?
> 
> We haven't set it, so I presume that means it's using the default of
> 100. I just checked, and we're using 44 of them.

For what? smtp? smtpd? pstree output can help - it shows lines like:

     |        |-8*[smtp]
     |        |-32*[smtpd]


> I'm gonna take a hard look at the PHP script running the mailer
> through SwiftMailer today. At first I was thinking disk IO, but CPU is
> seeming to be a strong culprit.

Yeah, maybe it's too slow at generating the mails.

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