Major Load please help

[Martin Hepworth]

Rob

are you using the bigevil.cf - or did I read a post earlier that you've
disables SA and only MS now?

Are you doing any RBL checking in MS - check the MailScanner.conf file..

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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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Vicchiullo, Rob wrote:
> Yes I have top. It shows Mailscanner using most of everything.
> There are 10 Mailscanner processes.
> And im not sure what SAR is.
> My max children is at 10 and my loads at 7-9.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of William Burns
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 12:09 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Major Load please help
>
> Rob:
>
> Do you have top installed?
> http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc8.html#top
> ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/8/top-3.5-sol8-sparc-local.
> gz
>
> Did you run SAR?
> Are your disks thrashing?
>
> Running top adds a bit of load to your system, but gives you a VERY good
> idea of what's getting your CPU cycles.
>
> How many instances of mailscanner do you see running?
>
> On my (ram limited) system, I had to reduce the number of concurrent
> mailscanner processes in order to get good performance. This may not be
> your problem, but when that change was made here, the queues got handled
> much more quickly.
>
> (The "Max Children" setting is in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf)
>
> -Bill
>
> 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.
>>
>>I'd appreciate any help on this, I'm in a bind on this one.
>>
>>Rob
>>
>>
>
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