Re: Load average probs

2004-10-31 Thread jdow
On another paw I note that most family tools are not left running 24x7. If this is his case then a large portion of his 250 messages may be coming in right after he boots. If he is setup to spawn too many spamds then he could experience a memory crisis. {^_-} From: "JamesDR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Load average probs

2004-10-30 Thread JamesDR
He did say what his mail average is: "This is a small-scale family server receiving only about 250 emails a day." You may want to read the entire message next time. Thanks, JamesDR Loren Wilton wrote: When the high LA hits, available RAM is essentially nil and the swap space is about 85% used as we

Re: Load average probs

2004-10-30 Thread Tom Collins
On Oct 30, 2004, at 8:04 AM, John Fleming wrote: When the high LA hits, available RAM is essentially nil and the swap space is about 85% used as well. When I've seen it hit 12 or so, it seemed that the HDD activity would never stop, and I've manually killed spamassassin and any spamd's. On my s

Re: Load average probs

2004-10-30 Thread Loren Wilton
> When the high LA hits, available RAM is essentially nil and the swap space > is about 85% used as well. When I've seen it hit 12 or so, it seemed that > the HDD activity would never stop, and I've manually killed spamassassin and > any spamd's. You don't say what your normal mail rate is, nor w

Re: Load average probs

2004-10-30 Thread Michael Parker
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:04:36AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > This is on a recent Dell 400SC with 512 MB RAM and IDE drives. I suppose > this might be a ridiculous question to some of you, but can you make an > "experienced guess" as to whether the high load averages are due to my using > net

Load average probs

2004-10-30 Thread John Fleming
I've followed the "memory-hog" threads of late, but as a rather inexperienced Linux person, some of it is over my head. I'm using SA v2.64 with network tests and bayes. Everything is fine except that several times a day the server seems overwhelmed with load averages 4-12. Here is a minor exampl