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Re: [SLUG] Load average and Sendmail

To: Peter McCarthy <peterm@nospam.dva.net.au>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Load average and Sendmail
From: Andrew Macks <andypoo@nospam.ihug.com.au>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 11:53:13 +1100 (EST)
cc: slug@nospam.slug.org.au
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Sender: owner-slug@nospam.newtreno.spectrum.com.au

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Peter McCarthy wrote:

> Occasionally I get this message from sendmail
> 
> sendmail[207]: runqueue: Skipping queue run -- load average too high
> 
> What is sendmail trying to tell me and what are the repercussions of this ?

Means that your system is doing something crazy and is doing too much,
thus sendmail would not be able to work properly, or would only amount to
the computer's problems.

Work out why your load is so high, probably a dodgy app crashing or
something.

Andrew.

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