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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Followup to:  <26054.973893835@euclid.cs.niu.edu>
By author:    Neil W Rickert <sendmail+rickert@sendmail.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org> wrote:
> 
> >The problem of dropping connections on 2.4 was related to the O RefuseLA
> >settings.  The defaults  in the RedHat, Suse, and OpenLinux RPMs are
> >clearly set too low for modern Linux kernels.  You may want them cranked
> >up to 100 or something if you want sendmail to always work.  
> 
> If a modern Linux kernel requires high load average defaults, I will
> stop using Linux.
> 

Numerically high load averages aren't inherently a bad thing.  There
isn't anything bad about a system with a loadavg of 20 if it does what
it should in the time you'd expect.  However, if your daemons start
blocking because they assume this number means badness, than that is
the problem, not the loadavg in itself.

	-hpa

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