Second speed test

Matt hciss at HCIWS.COM
Sun Sep 22 23:42:16 IST 2002


> agree.  The only time I have ever had a large queue is if mailscanner
> dies.  Which has only happened to me about 3 or 4 times(note mailscanner
> dieing is due to other problems out of mailscanners hands).  This leaves
> sendmail running putting mail in the queue.in and nothing taking it
> out.  Mailscanner gets progressively faster as it whittles down the
> queue.

We have seen Mailscanner with somewhere around a thousand messages in its
queue.  A new Internet user we signed up had a virus that was sending out
messages non-stop for a few hours.  We run a Raq4i and it was complaining
about running out of room on home or something.  A lot of the messages were
sent to non-existant address and where pooled for retry.  I had to go in and
update the cleanquartine.sh to remove at 1 day to free enough disk space to
keep the Raq running.  It took the Raq a week to fully recover and purge all
the messages out.

Matthew



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