I have made the following suggested change and the change to sendmail.cf
file. The result of this change seems to have worsen the situation. I am
even unable to login to the listserv running system after posting a digest
to list with about 11000 members. I am running this on solaris 2.7, 160 MB
memory, Sparc 20, lsv 1.8d. This system is exclusively used for listserv
and  a small web server. The system loads have shot up to 12, 14, and to
16. I have not seen such high loads before. Any other tips? Thanks




On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Francoise Becker wrote:

> On 23 Apr 99, at 13:00, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
>
> > One hidden "Gotcha" with Listserv performance is proper tuning of Sendmail.
>
> Good point. I wasn't even thinking of Sendmail when I sent in my
> previous reply. I will add one more suggestion regarding Sendmail:
>
> If you are running LISTSERV 1.8d on Unix and using Sendmail as your
> outbound mail server, you can put the following in go.user:
>
> ASYNCH_SMTP=1
> export ASYNCH_SMTP
>
> then stop and restart LISTSERV.  What this does is spawns a child 'lsv'
> process whose job it is strictly to feed mail to sendmail.  That allows
> LISTSERV proper to get on with its work without waiting for sendmail.
>
> Francoise
>