Sounds like sendmail is stuck on a message for some reason. (or the email is so large that it is tying up your entire system) Did you try restarting the sendmail process?
#/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart to see if that cures the problem? I haven't had that happen here, but it is a possibility. (Have you checked for disk space with df -h ?) You can also check the output of #mailq to see what is sitting in the queue. Mark On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Ade Talabi wrote: > Why will sendmail queueing system eat up 41% of my computer resources. > > top output below... > > 20081 root 11 0 1656 1512 604 D 41.3 0.1 0:39 sendmail > > PID 20081 below from ps output... > > Should I be worried? > > root 20081 579 14 20:25 ? 00:00:42 sendmail: running queue: /var/sp > > | #----------------------------------------------------------------------- > | In science we are really good at disproving things and are very poor at proving >things. Theories like the Theory of Relativity go on and on because no one can think >of anything better. > Richard Zayre, Professor at Stanford University, August 6, 1996 > | #----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yeah, that's how science works. Pose a theory ***based on all available knowledge*** and try to disprove it. The process of disproving it gives us new knowledge. That's how science advances. What's the point? _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
