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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.61 prob
Message-ID: <8874@alice.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 03:58:10 GMT
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In article <788@blake.acs.washington.edu> mtsu@blake.UUCP (Montana State) writes:
>Ok, I've swiped the sendmail5.61+ida1.2.8 from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, and
>in the middle of compiling conf.c, it bombs with FSCALE and FSHIFT
>undefined..  I assume these are numbers to scale the values in avenrun[0]
>which must be the load average, but what the heck are the values supposed
>to be??  They're not defined in conf.h...
>
You can always get rid of some of that code.
The reason sendmail looks at avenrun is to find out how busy the system is.
It tries to be "friendly" by not spending cpu-cycles on mail delivery if the
system is very busy.
If your system is to be used primarily for mail (yes there are such systems)
and other activities are considered less important this sendmail behaviour
is not even desirable.

Paul.
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