Re: Load-average based SMTP receiver blocking ?

[Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>]

Oh, sigh.  Beware the traps of getting involved in loadaverage code.
Look at sendmail/src/conf.c for the current "state of the art" in 
getting the load average.  It's about 300 lines.

As for what to do, certainly a table is a good thing.

On the other hand, sendmail went through a big learning curve trying
to decide of never accepting, just doing a close(), or sending a reject
message is the right thing to do.  A lot of it depended on what other
implementations did.  I would try to find a sendmail person with a sense
of history (Neil Rickert?) and ask him/her.
	/r$