On 12/29/2014 10:16 PM, Anshul Chauhan wrote: > Hi, > > I’m running centos 5.7 with sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7, > fetchmail-6.3.6-4.el5 and procmail-3.22-17.1.el5.centos. My server is > having around 2000 mailboxes and this server used to fetch mails for all > these users using fetchmail from the other MX server. I’ve configured the > below cron job using webmin for downloading these mail > > 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /etc/webmin/fetchmail/check.pl > --file /var/log/fetchmaillog. > > > > But the load average for the server goes high automatically after every 4 > to 5 hours due to multiple fetchmail instances and after that I’ve to > either kill all the fetchmail jobs or restart the server for making the > system up again. > > > Kindly suggest how can i reduce this load average issue or any other way > out for downloading the mails from the parent server running on sendmail > again. get cron to call a script that establishes a lock file, thus next round of cron will not start fetchmail again until the first invocation completes. > Warm Regards, > Anshul Chauhan > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos