| Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2000 02:35:21 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue |
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On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:18:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
The problem seems to me that the load figure doesn't express what most people seem to expect it to - CPU load.
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