High system load

2007-08-16 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I realise it's poor form to jump on a mailing list and immediately ask for help, so I hope you will be forgiving. I administer a system for a US non-profit organisation. The previous admin chose to use Qmail and then QPSMTPD to allow the system to do greylisting. We are experiencing tw

Re: High system load

2007-09-12 Thread Geoff Shang
ts file to check which domains we are receiving mail for? If not, what does it do and do I really need it? If it turns out that I do need it, is there something I can do to reduce the strain it it is putting on the system? I'm running QPSMTPD 0.40 under Perl 5.6.1. Thanks, Geoff. Ge

Re: High system load

2007-09-15 Thread Geoff Shang
Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: On Sep 12, 2007, at 16:04, Geoff Shang wrote: In the end it turned out that it was check_relay that was causing the performance problems. system averages of about 6 dropped to less than 1 when I turned off this plugin. That's surprising. Is your relayclients