[Mimedefang] include system load in timeout message

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Jun 18 22:38:58 EDT 2002


On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote:

> instead of mimedefang stating 'filter times out. check your rules or
> system load' could it say 'check your rules (load is 2.01)' where
> 2.01 is the system load. that'd be a lot more helpful in tracking
> things down as I usually don't see the messages when they occur. I
> gwet them up to 5 minutes later, and by then, the load is ok...

There's no portable way to determine the system load under UNIX (other
than execing "uptime", I suppose.)  If you have "sar" installed, it
might give you an idea what happened, though.

--
David.




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