my mail server is drowning

[Julian Field]

At 14:57 07/05/2003, you wrote:


>On Wed, 7 May 2003, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 07:59:53 +0100
> > From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> > Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: my mail server is drowning
> >
> > Try
> > 1) switch off bayes support in SpamAssassin
>
>an ugly choice...
>
> > 2) reduce number of children to 2
>
>this make things worse, email stacks up faster...
>
> > 3) temporarily try f-prot instead of sophossavi
> > 4) get rid of your auto-whitelist completely
>
>How?  Isn't is by default on in MS?  I don't find the switch/setting...

SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = no
in MailScanner.conf.

> > If you are doing lots of paging, then memory is surely your problem, not
> > CPU. Context switching on SPARC architectures is quite an expensive
> > operation, so if it is spending 30% of its CPU doing nothing other than
> > context-switching, you have already lost most of 1 CPU. You need to get the
> > paging figure down.

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Julian Field
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