From 5a3cdc998d4415ccd616380727cc6549da86c907 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:18:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] bail out if system load is >= 5

---
 pull-mail | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pull-mail b/pull-mail
index 828ec37..13f4804 100755
--- a/pull-mail
+++ b/pull-mail
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
+loadavg="$(cut -d. -f1 /proc/loadavg)"
+if [ "$loadavg" -ge 5 ]; then
+	# System load is too high. Don't contribute to it.
+	exit 0
+fi
+
 date >> ~/.fetchmail/log
 fetchmail >> ~/.fetchmail/log
 bsmtp-pull gluck
-- 
2.30.2