Moving messages between deferred and incoming

[Julian Field]

Please read my posting of yesterday entitled "Re: Slow mail processing". 
You should read this thread as it is directly related to matters affecting 
speed.

At 14:57 01/04/2004, you wrote:
>That very well could be.  I know that it has been suggested to put the
>incoming directory on tmpfs.  That is great I don't mind doing that...but,
>is there a document somewhere telling you how?  I have MS running on RedHat
>9 on a dual Xeon 2.6 with 2gig of ram.  This is the only thing running on
>this system right now and it is processing about 130,000+ messages per day.
>I have it set to only run local checks (bayes, clamav, evil_numbers, etc.).
>Like I said, it seems that once the messages get into the incoming directory
>it works very quickly.  However, getting the messages from the deferred
>directory to the incoming directory is the problem.  It seems to only pull
>about 5 or 10 messages at a time when there are 5000+ in there at a time.
>
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>Dan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Ugo Bellavance
>Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:29 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Moving messages between deferred and incoming
>
> >-----Message d'origine-----
> >De : Dan Spray [mailto:danslists at conpoint.com]
> >Envoyé : 1 avril, 2004 08:04
> >À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Objet : Moving messages between deferred and incoming
> >
> >
> >Thanks to all that replied to my previous messages I now have
> >things moving
> >much better through the system.  However, it seems to be
> >pulling messages
> >from the /var/spool/postfix.in/deferred folder very slowly.
> >Once they get
> >into the /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming folder they go out
> >quickly.  How
> >can I speed up the process of MS pulling the messages from the deferred
> >folder to the incoming folder.
>
>We cannot help you with that amount of information.  Please give more
>information about your setup and stats that could tell us what is the
>bottleneck.
>
>BTW, what you mean is "how to speed up MailScanner".
>
>Maybe take a look here: http://www.routier.org/ms.htm#optimize
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks again,
> >
> >
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >
> >
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