mailscanner slowing the computer down

[Rishi Gangoly]

Hi

I was going thru the mailscanner.conf file and found these lines...


# In every batch of virus-scanning, limit the maximum
# a) number of text-only messages to deliver
# b) number of potentially infected messages to unpack and scan
# c) total size of text-only messages to deliver
# d) total size of potentially infected messages to unpack and scan
Max Safe   Messages Per Scan = 500
Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan = 100
Max Safe   Bytes Per Scan = 100000000
Max Unsafe Bytes Per Scan = 50000000



Should I change it to

Max Safe   Messages Per Scan = 50
Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan = 10

and would that solve my hanging my server?

Regards

Rishi



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rishi Gangoly" <rishi at theargoncompany.com>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: mailscanner slowing the computer down


> 1. Sorry for sending the all the lines.
> 2. Yes it was a mail loop. How does one prevent it from happening in
future?
>
> Regards
>
> Rishi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Hoying" <andrewh at CQG.COM>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 8:34 PM
> Subject: Re: mailscanner slowing the computer down
>
>
> > This is the same thing that happened to me last month. Check for a mail
> loop
> > with bouncing messages between one of our e-mail recipients and some off
> > site address.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > > Behalf Of Julian Field
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 8:59 AM
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Re: mailscanner slowing the computer down
> > >
> > >
> > > At 15:27 15/05/2002, you wrote:
> > > >Hi
> > > >
> > > >I just noticed my server became very slow and noticed the number of
> files
> > > >create in /var/spool/mailscanner/incoming was huge.
> > > >
> > > >Hers is the output of find /var/spool/mailscanner/incoming
> > > >
> > > ><SNIP>
> > >
> > > Did we really all need to see *all* of that? A few sample lines
> > > and a rough
> > > total would have done...
> > >
> > > >Can anyone tell me why this is happening?
> > > >What am I doing wrong?
> > > >Is there somehting to prevent this?
> > >
> > > Looks like you have a message with a huge number of attachments.
> > > --
> > > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> > >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> > >