Mailscanner filter server to my Mail store " I just canna do it c aptain! "

[Drew Weaver]

The screwy thing is MailScanner isn't even using any of the power of my
server. When it freaks out my box is doing like 90% free ram and 2% cpu.

So why does mailscanner panic, when the load isn't even that high?

And also, I have 1 mail store server, and it's a dual xeon 2.8ghz /w 1 gig
of ram, I shouldn't need a box that big just to do scan & forward, right?

I was thinking about setting up 2 or 3 similar sized servers, would that be
ok?

-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Dijkxhoorn [mailto:raymond at PROLOCATION.NET]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 3:04 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mailscanner filter server to my Mail store " I just canna do it
c aptain! "

Hi!

>             So I issue the ole /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner stop/start it
> comes back up, instantly 5 processes show up as <defunct> so now im
> confused, so I was like, lets see whats in my queue. So I hit a ls -la
> /var/spool/mqueue.in | wc -l !!42097!!, 42097 messages in mqueue.in, no
> wonder MailScanner wont start. Ok. My question is how do I make this thing
> handle my load.
>
> Pentium III 600 /w 512k cache

You can forget about that, seriously. You need to upgrade hardware with
the current load you are processing.

> Any advice is great, I really like the idea of this product, and I really
> want it to work for us.

Buy two or three dual xeon machines and try again.

Bye,
Raymond.