Well, we have a huge list (more than 50,000 subscribers). Of course, with so many subscribers, we have a large number of request actions (sub, unsub, bounces, etc). And some time, multigram gone in the nirvhana ;~{ The load average grow up, and all things are locked. ~>top 8:25am up 4 days, 9:41, 2 users, load average: 10.24, 9.74, 8.33 .... PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 15792 list 10 0 396 396 324 R 0 26.8 0.1 156:54 multigram 13949 root 10 0 2040 2040 1048 R 0 3.1 0.7 0:00 sendmail Any idea welcome. Thanks, Francois. -- "Quelle Connerie la guerre" (J. Prevert) Francois Sauterey Tel: +33 01 40 33 68 46 mailto:Francois@sauterey.org-nospam Mon seul hébergeur : le RAS (.eu.org) ;~}