Vahid moghaddasi wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have machine that only forwards e-mails to another site. There was a
> problem with some app and this machine received over 130k of very small
> e-mail, that was on the 25 of Sep. I still see about 80K of the e-mails
> in the queue and log shows a very slow delivery, also from time to time
> it stops delivering.
> I noticed that qmail-rspawn and qmail-send are taking almost all of the
> cpu power and the machine is a high-end Sun server.
> Do you think there is something wrong or is it normal for qmail-rspawn
> to take so much cpu power under heavy delivery?
> Thanks,
> Vahid.
>

Vahid,

qmail-showctl,logs?
Remote concurency, clienttimeout?

are these messages destined for your remote servers or are these bounce
backs?

AK