Major Load please help

[Vicchiullo, Rob]

Right now I have Spamassassin turned off. 
I have max child at 4 and my load is constant 5.
I mean for a quad box this just seems really wrong.



---> also 
Read up on vmstat. -S reports on swapping and I get this
# vmstat -S
 procs     memory            page            disk          faults
cpu
 r b w   swap  free  si  so pi po fr de sr m1 m2 m3 m4   in   sy   cs us
sy id
 0 0 0 2086464 1461848 0  0 137 22 22 0  0  1  1  1  0 1832 2573 1576 13
10 77



-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:35 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Major Load please help

Rob

have got any RBL's installed. I found this a major load bearer if I use
the RBL's in SA and don't turn most of them off (ie give then a zero
score)

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Vicchiullo, Rob wrote:
>
>> I am really need some help on this, so please any and all give
advice.
>> I am running a sun enterprise with quad 450s and 2 gigs of ram
running
>> Solaris 8.
>> MailScanner 4.29.7
>> SpamAssassin 2.63
>>
>> This mail server gets roughly 60,000 to 70,000 emails a day.
>> My problem is this, the load on the box is just insane and the queue
>> gets backed up.
>> When spamassassin is on the load goes to around 18-20 with it if its
>> stays around 8-12.
>> Is there anything I may be missing to alleviate this.
>> I already Have Mailscanners Incoming in the /tmp dir (basically in
>> memory).
>> I've looked through the list and did everything that is said to do,
>> which are real basic things.
>
>
> Have you isolated the problem? I/O (using vmstat), memory (free),
> network (do you have a local dns caching nameserver).
>
> Do you have errors or timeouts inyour logs?
>
> Did you test mailscanner and spamassassin in debug?
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/252.html
>
> you can check here http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/#optimize
>
>>
>> I'd appreciate any help on this, I'm in a bind on this one.
>>
>> Rob
>>
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