sendmail doesn't respond on heavy disk activity

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 16.06.2004 schrieb Marc Lucke um 15:38:

> If I use dvdauthor and then telnet to port 25, the port opens but the 
> Daemon doesn't answer until dvdauthor is finished.  Since it isn't a cpu 
> related but a disk thing, renicing doesn't help.  I think it might be a 
> libata thing.  How can I get my system to accept email when I'm using 
> dvdauthor or otherwise heavily utilising my drive?

You get no greating message by Sendmail or does it reject your attempt
with a temporary failure message (DSN 4.5.1)?

If its last, then you have a high load and you can adjust that Sendmail
behaviour in the sendmail.mc config file. If it really happens because
of disk activity then you have a really big problem. It would be good to
know whether the system runs FC1 or FC2 and which hardware you use.

Alexander


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