Matt wrote: > How bad does the below look? Dual core AM2 5600+ with 4G DDR2 and > single SATA2 drive. [..] > 05:40:01 PM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %idle > 05:50:01 PM all 7.20 0.00 2.49 5.08 85.23 > Average: all 14.13 0.00 3.12 14.85 67.90 The average looks average.. with stats only collecting once every 10 minutes it's hard to say. I collect my stats using sar and pipe them into cacti every minute. If you get say into the 25-30% range I'd be concerned. What kind of mail system are you running ? Is it simply a SMTP relay or is mail being stored on the system and users accessing it? If users are accessing it what type of mail storage(mbox, maildir, cyrus etc). nate