Major Load please help

[Peter Bonivart]

Vicchiullo, Rob wrote:
> Here is an even weirder thing.
> I currently have Use Spamassassin = no in MailScanner.conf
> But if I look in the headers I see the following.
> X-DD-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.6, required
> 5.5,
>         AWL 0.00, BAYES_00 -4.90, RM_tl_ToNone 2.30)
>
> Any ideas why it is still using Spamasasssin.

Is that your headers? Do you run SA from procmail or something? SA
whitelisting is off by default in MS. I don't recognize the last trap
either (RM_tl_ToNone).

What's your baseline on this server? Did the problems start just now?
Have you run MS on it before without problems? What does it do except
mail, you mentioned DNS?

Could you post output from top and prstat? What exactly is the problem,
is it you thinking the load average is too high? You should check the
delay time on the outgoing mail, that's a pretty good measurement of
true performance on a mail server.

Lots of questions, I know. :-)

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/Peter Bonivart

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