Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:29:20 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue |
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"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > Followup to: <26054.973893835@euclid.cs.niu.edu> > By author: Neil W Rickert <sendmail+rickert@sendmail.org> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org> wrote: > > > > >The problem of dropping connections on 2.4 was related to the O RefuseLA > > >settings. The defaults in the RedHat, Suse, and OpenLinux RPMs are > > >clearly set too low for modern Linux kernels. You may want them cranked > > >up to 100 or something if you want sendmail to always work. > > > > If a modern Linux kernel requires high load average defaults, I will > > stop using Linux. > > > > Numerically high load averages aren't inherently a bad thing. There > isn't anything bad about a system with a loadavg of 20 if it does what > it should in the time you'd expect. However, if your daemons start > blocking because they assume this number means badness, than that is > the problem, not the loadavg in itself.
Well, here's what the sendmail folks **REAL** opinion of Linux is and the way load average is calculated (senders name removed)
[... sendmail person ...]
Ok, here's my blunt answer: Linux sucks. Why does it have a load > average of 10 if there are two processes running? Let's check the > man page: > > and the three load averages for the system. The load > averages are the average number of process ready to > run during the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. This line > is just like the output of uptime(1). > > So: Linux load average on these systems is broken.
So I guess we know where we stand with the sendmail folks. If the US post office delivered mail at Christmas time using a size based priority the way sendmail does, folks would all get their Christmas presents about mid-February unless O NumberOfPostalWorkers=20 was set high enough.
Jeff
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