On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 06:47, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > 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. I see this sometimes too. Only that I see in my Cron-logwatch. It says load is too high (12 I think) and because of that it's rejecting new mails. I'm not sure if it prints out a DSN 4.5.1 thing. I've never seen it _not_ working. Maybe I just don't realise it actually, and find out later through logwatch --
