Increasing MailScanner performance

[Glynn S. Condez]

Sorry version 3.23.1 I mean.

--- Glynn ---


----- Original Message -----
From: "Glynn S. Condez" <glynn at MAKATI.TECHSQUARE.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: Increasing MailScanner performance


> Hi chris,
>
> Thats what I have experienced before but when I tried to upgrade my
version
> to 3.32.1, wow it so fast.
>
> --- Glynn ---
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Waltham" <chris at HARVESTROAD.COM>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:52 PM
> Subject: Increasing MailScanner performance
>
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I've got a Linux box (kernel 2.2.19) with dual P3-700s and 512MB of RAM.
> > We're a small software company (with some web hosting & email stuff
thrown
> > in), around 40 or 50 souls working here. I've noticed that messages sent
> > through MailScanner have started to take longer and longer to come
> through,
> > and some [l]users today have called up and whined to me about it.
> >
> > What can I do to improve my performance? If I go into
/var/spool/mqueue.in
> > I get this:
> >
> > root at xxx:/var/spool/mqueue.in# ls | wc -l
> >      342
> >
> > I'm running MailScanner 3.20-4 and SpamAssassin 2.20 (I think!), and if
it
> > matters the POP3 daemon I'm using is cucipop. Loads on the machine are
> > generally pretty low, around 0.05-0.10, though it's been as high as 0.40
> > today. We're scanning the emails with Sophos 3.57. Oh, I should say
we're
> > using Sendmail too (8.11.2).
> >
> > Here are some lines from my MailScanner config, let me know if you want
to
> > see more:
> >
> > Delivery Method = batch
> > Deliver In Background = yes
> >
> > Judging from this page
> > (http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/faq.shtml) I should try
> setting
> > Delivery Method to "queue". Our DNS is fine, though. Any ideas?
> >
> > Here's how I'm starting my Sendmail:
> >
> >    echo "Starting sendmail daemon (/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd
> > -ODeliveryMode=queueonly \ -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in)..."
> >    /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
> > -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
> >    echo "Starting sendmail daemon (/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q5m)..."
> >    /usr/sbin/sendmail -q5m
> >
> > thanks guys,
> >
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > --
> > Chris Waltham
> > Systems Administrator
> > HarvestRoad, Limited.
> > chris at harvestroad.com
> > phone: (08) 9338-3000
> >
>