continued issue: queue gets backed up frequently

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Chris W. Parker
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:08 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: continued issue: queue gets backed up frequently
>
> Stephen Swaney <mailto:steve.swaney at FSL.COM>
>     on Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:50 AM said:
>
> > Check for SpamAssassin time outs in the mail logs. If you find these,
> > look for possible network congestion that might be occurring at the
> > same time. The evening and early morning time might indicate backups
> > in progress or running late.
>
> i think you may be on to something. i do have backups running at this
> time, and monday, wednesday, friday are my biggest jobs, hence the
> pattern.
>
> and yes i did find a few times outs.
>
> my question at this point is: what does network congestion have to do
> with it and how can i remedy it?

SpamAssassin can very network intensive. It does many RBL checks and if you
have Razor, Pyzor and DCC installed and enabled, network congestion can slow
it to a crawl, hence the SpamAssassin timeouts. This slows all email
processing and results in spam slipping through on the timeouts.

Best solution is to get your email processing on a separate LAN segment
/Ethernet port from the backup.

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com

>
> thanks for your help!
> chris.
>
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