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

[Julian Field]

At 20:38 22/08/2003, you wrote:
>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.

In that case something nasty has gone wrong.
You did install Sophos using the "Sophos.install" command didn't you?

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

It shouldn't. And it doesn't on anyone else's server.

>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?

"just scan and forward".... "just scanning" is a pretty big job as every
message has to have all its attachments decoded and written into files,
then virus scanned, then cleaned up, then put back together and then delivered.

>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.

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