Re: mails remain in clientmqueue and is not sent

peter pilsl <pilsl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


What is reported when you push the queued messages in verbose mode
with DNS tracking turned on? [DNS related problems are main suspect]
sendmail -d8.20 -Ac -qIk1AGEBuF03248
-d8.20 - turns on DNS queries tracking
-qI... - specifies queue id to process



AHA !!! Now we are getting closer ... When I issue your command I get
the following in the logs:

Feb 10 20:19:10 alpha sendmail[12150]: runqueue: Skipping queue run --
load average too high


I had to increase the average-limits in my sendmail.mc about two weeks
ago cause sendmail was refusing to work. (I didnt dig deeper and just
adjusted the limits in sendmail.mc) Seems like this new limits does
not apply to the local queue-processing

define(`confQUEUE_LA',`64')
define(`confREFUSE_LA',`128')

sendmail -Ac reads submit.cf -- not sendmail.cf
so you need these on submit.mc ...

Looks like I have to dig deeper into sendmails "load average" : The
system is running pretty smoothly : cpu is 99,8% idle and some memory
free (512MB total, 63MB buffered, 10MB free, 120M swap used out of
1000M) I wonder why sendmail thinks my system is overheating.

My impression is that generally "load avarage" means number of processes
which wait CPU or disk IO.

/ Kari Hurtta
.

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