Re: [Fetchmail-users] Fetchmail multiple instances increasing load average

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On Mon Dec 29 2014 at 8:18:17 AM Anshul Chauhan <cha...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’m running centos 5.7 with sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7,
> fetchmail-6.3.6-4.el5 and procmail-3.22-17.1.el5.centos. My server is
> having around 2000 mailboxes and this server used to fetch mails for
> all these users using fetchmail from the other MX server. I’ve configured
> the below cron job using webmin for downloading these mail
>

Your fetchmail version is (very) out of date, as is your version of CentOS.
You should consider upgrading.


>  5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /etc/webmin/fetchmail/check.pl
> --file /var/log/fetchmaillog.
>
> But the load average for the server goes high automatically after every
> 4 to 5 hours due to multiple fetchmail instances and after that I’ve to
> either kill all the fetchmail jobs or restart the server for making the
> system up again.
>
> Kindly suggest how can i reduce this load average issue or any other
> way out for downloading the mails from the parent server running on
> sendmail again.
>

Why are you running it every 5 minutes from cron? Why not use the daemon
mode?

-- 
Rob MacGregor