Per Hedeland wrote:
> In article <12hldbdgli94609@corp.supernews.com> Matthew Schumacher
> <matt.s@aptalaska.net> writes:
>> I can't figure out why my sendmail box would do this.
>>
>> I have a queue with 1042 messages in it and when I run `sendmail -v -q`
>> it spools 1042 sendmail processes which cause my load average to go
>> though the roof, not to mention killing my primary mail system which
>> this host queues for.
>
> Maybe you have this set?
>
> confSEPARATE_PROC ForkEachJob [False] Run all deliveries in a
> separate process.
>
> --Per Hedeland
> per@hedeland.org

Per,

I don't have that config option set, but even when I explicitly set it
to False I still get thousands of processes.

Any other ideas?

schu