Re: High Load Average

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Author: George Toft
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: High Load Average
Mike wrote:
>
> Actually I found it in KDE system guard, I had 3 instances of smtp running. My
> system cpu usage % was in excess of 80%, I killed the three proccess's and
> voila!
> --
> 11:51am up 2 days 21:41, 4 users, load average: 0.60, 1.88, 2.61
> Linux
>
> --
> 11:53am up 2 days 21:42, 4 users, load average: 0.62, 1.45, 2.37
> Linux
>
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OK - you circumvented the problem, but what is the root cause? What was
your MTA trying to do? What is to prevent this from happening again?

Just some things to think about.

George Toft
CISSP, MSIS
CTO/Computer Security
AGD,LLC
www.agdllc.com
623-203-1760
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