Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 11/03/84 (WLS Mods); site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!astrovax!wls From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: 4.2 lost mail Message-ID: <504@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 17:29:05 EST Article-I.D.: astrovax.504 Posted: Sun Dec 2 17:29:05 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 06:19:49 EST References: <6079@brl-tgr.ARPA> <53@tove.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 19 > Sendmail checks the load average and queues up message for later > delivery if the load is over some N (around 8 or so I think). > This mode does not work--the messages are mostly lost for ever > when the load goes over N. You can change this magic constant > in one of the .h files to 9999, make a new sendmail, and delivery > on busy Vaxes gets much more reliable. > > I find the presence of this bug to be amazing, considering all > the sendmails that are out there. I posted this bug report a > few months ago. I guess most people have quiet machines. > > Spoken: Mark Weiser ARPA: mark@maryland Phone: (301) 454-7817 We have anything but a quiet machine: with load average often over 10. However I haven't seen sendmail lose mail. The mail does get queued. At least the above statement about messages being mostly lost would have to false here. -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls