Moving messages between deferred and incoming

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Dan Spray [mailto:danslists at conpoint.com]
>Envoyé : 1 avril, 2004 08:57
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: Moving messages between deferred and incoming
>
>
>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? 

Have you read the message you replied to?  I put a link to a page.  This page contains the link to what you need. It's in the faqs.
And the list's archive is full of posts about tmpfs and ramdisk.

>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.

This depends of your max batch size.
We'd need to see logs.

>
>
>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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