Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!wivax!cadmus!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!loverso From: loverso@sunybcs.UUCP (John Robert LoVerso) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: 4.2 lost mail Message-ID: <914@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 11:12:09 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.914 Posted: Sun Dec 9 11:12:09 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 02:04:10 EST References: <6079@brl-tgr.UUCP> <32300006@smu.UUCP> Organization: CamelotLines: 30 > Look in /usr/src/usr.lib/sendmail/src/conf.c (the first few > links may be different on your system) and there are two > define's called QueueLA and RefuseLA which are set to some "low" > constants (like 10 and 16). These are used as trigger points. > When the system load average gets above these numbers then > messages are queued (in the case of the QueueLA constant) or > SMTP connections are refused (in the case of the RefuseLA > constant). > > Is there a better fix to the problem? -- If you look thru the Version.c file; delta 372 refers to the options "x" and "X", which alter the values of QueueLA and RefuseLA respectively. Other than those 4 lines, they are undocumented. At least you dont have to go recompiling the code to change them (i put them in the config file). Its agreed sendmail is a dog. John Quarterman at UT told me about an alternate mailer called "SM" (small mailer) which functionally replaces most of sendmail and is written in peices (rather than one huge program). Its from Lucasfilm. Does anybody know more about it (as - where/how can we get it??) ..John -- John Robert LoVerso @ SUNY Buffalo (716-636-3004) LoVerso%Buffalo@CSNET-RELAY -or- CSDJLV@SUNYABVA.BITNET -or- ..!{decvax|watmath|rocksanne}!sunybcs!loverso "Home is where you can where your hat..."