Major Load please help

[Rick Cooper]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Vicchiullo, Rob
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:40 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Major Load please help
>
>
> SA is off at the present time, since if I turn that on load shoots up
> even more.
> I have tried with and without RBL.
> With RBL increases load 2 (so from 5 to 7)
> *I just posted prior to this about my RBLs.

If you have bind running check /etc/resolv.conf and see how it compares to
what is listed here: http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-1386/6jam5ahnj?a=view

the primary NS should be 127.0.0.1 and any backup servers you may want.

Also can you dump output of:

top -b -n 1

Has anyone looked at your firewall to make sure there isn't anything hosed
up there?


>
>  Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 12:37 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Major Load please help
>
> 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..
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> 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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