Heavey Server load

[Daniel Bird]

Nathan Johanson wrote:

>Yep, I had the same ~20 sec delays on an otherwise quick server. Turned out to be the now defunct OSIRUSOFT rbl that was the culprit. Make sure you disable this in your MailScanner.conf as well as in SpamAssassin. See earlier threads regarding this issue.
>
Yep commented that out the other day.

>
>If it's not this particular rbl, I suspect it is one of the others that's causing the delays.
>
Once our queue falls back down to a reasonable level I'll try and
investigate a little...

>
>Nathan
>
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: Daniel Bird [mailto:dbird at SGHMS.AC.UK]
>       Sent: Fri 8/29/2003 4:16 AM
>       To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>       Cc:
>       Subject: Heavey Server load
>
>
>
>       Hello everybody!
>       I've seen a huge increase in load on our mailhubs since yesterday
>       morning at around 10 am BST. I've narrowed it down to the network tests
>       (rbl's dcc razor etc) causing SA to really slow up and my queues have
>       been building ever since (we've gone from about 2 sec permessge to over
>       20 sec). Now I've turned off all network tests (haven't had a chance to
>       work out which one(s) were causing the prob) things seem to be OK and
>       MAiilScanner is flying thru them.
>
>       Has anyone else seen this?
>
>       Dan
>
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Daniel Bird
Network and Systems Manager
Department Of Information Services
St. George's Hospital Medical School
Tooting
London SW17 0RE

P: +44 20 8725 2897
F: +44 20 8725 3583
E: dan at sghms.ac.uk
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