Regarding sendmail queue related

[Andrew Mathews]

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Swapana Ghosh wrote:
| Hi Andrew
|
|
|>Andrew Mathews andrew_mathews at linux-works.org
|>Fri Jun 13 01:54:08 EDT 2003
|>You need to define a higher load average using
|>confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE in your sendmail.mc.
|>Start at 25 and
|>increment it as necessary after retesting. Also
|>check for confDELAY_LA
|>and confREFUSE_LA and post those if they exist.
|
|
| I am not seeing these parameters in my sendmail.mc
| file. Ok i will compile sendmail.mc setting the
| confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE to 25..But i am not
| getting what you asked for confDELAY_LA and
| confREFUSE_LA ...These parameters are also not found
| in the sendmail.mc file
| Could you tell me where I will mention in the
| senmdail.cf file these parameters...
|

If they exist, they'll be in the sendmail.mc file also. The
confDELAY_LA=loadaverage will slow down the incoming smtp connections
based upon the load average, and the confREFUSE_LA=loadaverage will
refuse connections if the load average exceeds whatever you set it as.
It really sounds as if you're disk I/O bound though, unless you're
passing everything through dnsbl's or spamassassin, which can cause
timeouts or processing delays.

| One more thing i noticed that after receiving the mail
| sendmail also taking time to clear its queue - i need
| to clear the queue also quickly...

This could be caused by a single message blocking the processing of the
rest. You can get around this by adding confQueueSortOrder=random to
your sendmail.mc and rebuilding your sendmail.cf from it. As always,
don't forget to -hup sendmail after making any changes.

| Thanks a lot again....
|
| Best Regards.
| -Swapna
|

Please post your sendmail.mc for analysis.
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