High CPU Utilization

[Andrews Carl 448]

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MTA: sendmail
Average # of email: 50,000 - mostly(80% or better) spam
RBL's enables
SA 3.0.1

Max Children = 5
Max Unscanned Bytes Per Scan = 100000000
Max Unsafe Bytes Per Scan = 50000000
Max Unscanned Messages Per Scan = 30
Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan = 30

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 3:07 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: High CPU Utilization


Carl

what MTA?

how many emails per day on average?

How many MailScanner Children and what batch size have you defined in
MailScanner.conf?

Are you running any RBL's in SA?

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


Andrews Carl 448 wrote:
> I am using a 3GHZ Compaq/HP DL380 with 1G RAM, running MailScanner
> 4.35.11, Spamassassin 3.0.1, RedHat 9.0 (download version) and clamav
> 0.80. At any given point I have one copy of /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> running at 50% -97% CPU. As I am writting this there are 23 instances
> running, one is at 60% and the rest do not even appear on the (top -c )
> output. Anyone got any ideas on why this would be? Anything I can do to
> correct? Output from sar shows: "Average:          all     60.23
> 0.00     15.97     23.80". This server is for email filtering only. No
> other software (except a full install of the OS)
>
>
> Thanks!
> Carl
>
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