Message Batches

[Mike Kercher]

I really wouldn't worry about it too much.  I've had 800+ messages in my queue
and they all get processed in due time.

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Steve Freegard
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 11:36 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Message Batches
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've been running MailScanner site-wide for 8 days now, with
> huge success - however I've had a strange problem today.
>
> I had a problem with the update-virus-scanners script (which
> I'm still looking into) which resulted in a queue of around
> 50 messages waiting in /var/spool/mqueue.in.
>
> Once I'd sorted the problem, I restarted MailScanner which
> started processing the queue - however I noticed that it was
> taking a long time to process this backlog (with new messages
> going through straight away), upon investigation by doing a
> 'fuser *' in /var/spool/mqueue.in, I realised that one of the
> MailScanner children had picked up all 50+ messages and was
> running them through the various SA tests, RBL, Bayes etc.
> which took a while.
>
> It got me thinking - would it not be more efficient for each
> child to work to the batch size using the following:  total
> messages in queue/max number of children = batch size per
> child - which would clear the queue more efficiently???
>
> Or - do I have something incorretly configured?? - I'm
> running MS 4.20-3 + SA 2.54 on RedHat 9 + Sendmail.
>
> TIA,
> Steve.
> --
> Steve Freegard
> Systems Manager
> Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.
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