Zach Sheppard:
> However, whenever Postfix gets a large e-mail load it processes the e-mails
> for around 30-45 minutes and then consistently uses around 70-80% of the
> CPU effectively locking up the entire system so much so that I can't even
> login and debug without either disabling the network card in VMWare or
> rebooting the system totally. The VM has 2 CPU cores and 4GB RAM allocated
> to it which I thought was plenty for this application.
Did you determine out WHAT PROGRAM is consuming CPU? As Postfix is
totally I/O limited, I suspect that there may be some other system
component that is messing up.
For example, it is well known that one badly configured syslog
service can use up lots more CPU than all of Postfix combined.
Wietse
