On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:37:08PM -0800, Dave Scott wrote: > Hi, I got a server with 30 users on it, Mailman with 7 listservs going. > > > Debain 2.2, Kernel 2.2.17, Sendmail 8.9.3-21 > > For some reason, just the past few days, users have complained of > slowness of up to a few minutes to send out mail. > > If I log in and try to check the mailq, it responds with what is in the > mailq but only after a minute or two. > > The mailq always responded before within a second or two. > > All mail seems to be processed, but only after a delay. > > So, it seems Sendmail is busy doing something and cannot respond fast, > yet no one is sending mail at the time(that I know of) and the rest of > the box seems snappy.
My first guess would be to look at DNS resolution. It has the symptoms of slow host lookups. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
