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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  mail
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Date: 16 May 89 16:43:40 GMT
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Mark,

Is it possible for other Apollo user's to get a copy of your
modified sendmail? My network has only 20 nodes (running SR9.7
and SR10.1), but we occasionally get in a situation where so many
nodes are trying to acess the /usr/spool/mqueue directory that
the directory itself becomes locked up -- which then causes the
sendmail daemons to go wild with repeated trys to access the
directory. The poor node on which the directory resides may
receive in excess of 700 network I/O's per second when this
happens!


 -- David Krowitz

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