Carlos E. R. wrote:
When I fetch mail with fetchmail, I see this:
<5.6> 2012-09-12 17:09:03 Telcontar rsyslogd-2177 - - - imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting <5.6> 2012-09-12 17:09:07 Telcontar rsyslogd-2177 - - - imuxsock lost 187 messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting <5.6> 2012-09-12 17:09:09 Telcontar rsyslogd-2177 - - - imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting <5.6> 2012-09-12 17:09:13 Telcontar rsyslogd-2177 - - - imuxsock lost 226 messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting <5.6> 2012-09-12 17:09:15 Telcontar rsyslogd-2177 - - - imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting <5.6> 2012-09-12 17:09:19 Telcontar rsyslogd-2177 - - - imuxsock lost 144 messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting <5.6> 2012-09-12 17:09:21 Telcontar rsyslogd-2177 - - - imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting <5.6> 2012-09-12 17:09:25 Telcontar rsyslogd-2177 - - - imuxsock lost 248 messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting <5.6> 2012-09-12 17:09:27 Telcontar rsyslogd-2177 - - - imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting <5.6> 2012-09-12 17:09:31 Telcontar rsyslogd-2177 - - - imuxsock lost 196 messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting <5.6> 2012-09-12 17:09:35 Telcontar rsyslogd-2177 - - - imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting <5.6> 2012-09-12 17:09:37 Telcontar rsyslogd-2177 - - - imuxsock lost 119 messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting
Your fetchmail is spewing a _lot_ of messages - looks like 30-50/sec?
The PID is that of fetchmail. How can avoid that?
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