System load very high

[Desai, Jason]

I had very high system load when I was using bayes on my old MailScanner
server.  I had to turn it off by setting "use_bayes 0" in
spam.assassin.prefs.conf.  This kept the load reasonable until I got my new
(faster) server.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Leavitt [mailto:dll at SCITOOLS.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:40 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] System load very high
>
>
> Thanks for the ideas and sorry for the second posting, as I
> said my machine was behaving badly, fortunately the mailing
> list server
> rejected a couple of identical copies as well.
>
> I haven't seen any difficulties with the nameserver, which runs
> on the localhost and is the only entry in resolv.conf and which has
> no forwarders configured.
>
> I have the stock SA configuration with the only SA controls being
> those in MailScanner.conf, except that I've set skip_rbl_checks
> in spam.assassin.prefs.conf.   The only RBL checks that I'm
> doing are done by sendmail and these entries in my .mc file:
> FEATURE(`dnsbl', `relays.ordb.org')
> FEATURE(`dnsbl', `proxies.relays.monkeys.com')
>
> I haven't monitored memory usage, that could be an issue I
> suppose.  I know that perl doesn't like to free memory back
> to the system
> once its
> allocated, it just keeps it in its own pool.
>
> We use sendmail, not postfix.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 4:08 AM
> Subject: Re: System load very high
>
>
> > Are you using Postfix? If so, there was a problem that
> would cause this (a
> > message with absolutely no body at all) which I have since
> fixed in the
> > latest beta.
> > It took me 160,000 messages to be able to reproduce the problem :-(
> >
> > At 02:23 20/05/2003, you wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >Drat.   The system load has once again climbed sky-high -
> it's currently
> > >at 39!   Sendmail is refusing connections and all of my
> > >MailScanner processes show in the run-state and near the
> top 6 with top.
> > >
> > >I get frequent SpamAssassin timeout messages and until
> today was also
> > >getting InfinteMonkeys and ORD-RBL timeouts as well.  I've
> > >removed the RBL settings from MailScanner.conf and
> implemented same in
> > >sendmail.cf and they seem to work fine with no timeouts.
> > >
> > >Can someone give me some ideas what to look for with this.
>   I've seen
> > >others in the past with similar problems but I haven't been
> > >able to find their solutions in the FAQ or anywhere.
> > >
> > >The system died before this message got sent, but
> interestingly, when
> > >it was rebooted, it handled the 150 or so backed up messages in
> > >relatively short order.  It had been up for about 3 months.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Dan
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Peter Peters" <P.G.M.Peters at CIV.UTWENTE.NL>
> > >To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > >Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 9:24 AM
> > >Subject: Re: Palyh-A virus
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 19 May 2003 06:41:54 -0600, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Thanks to MailScanner, three .pif attachments that
> included Palyh-A were
> > > > >stopped before Sophos had an updated definition!
> > > >
> > > > It is called W32/Sobig.B at mm by f-prot.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Peter Peters, senior netwerkbeheerder
> > > > Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
> > > > Universiteit Twente,  Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
> > > > telefoon: 053 - 489 2301, fax: 053 - 489 2383,
http://www.utwente.nl/civ
> > >
>
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
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