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

[Julian Field]

At 20:03 22/08/2003, you wrote:
>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

That's only 21058 messages as there are 2 per message.
How many messages per day are you trying to push through it?

After you stop MailScanner, it will take 5 - 10 seconds for the processes
to shut down. They clean up after themselves, which can take a little while.
Only once they have all gone should you start them again.
If you did a
         /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner restart
then it would wait 5 or 10 seconds between the stop and the start.

> > 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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