Performance problems...

[Eric J Merkel]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ugo Bellavance" <ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Performance problems...


[SNIP]

> >
> > There are a fair number of timeouts.
>
> Timeouts on what? RBL? Spamassassin?
>

Sendmail collecting input from & to some SMTP servers....

> >I do not have a caching
> > name server on
> > this server, but I am going to load one on and see if that helps.
>
> if redhat, install the packages called caching-nameserver
>
> > I am
> > running three RBL's on this system so their are a lot of DNS lookups
> > happening.
>
> hence the advantage of having a caching dns on the same machine.

I've loaded a caching nameserver on this system. Just watching it a few
minutes, it does seem to have improved much. I am still falling about 200
messages behind every few minutes....

My current settings for the batch mode is below.

Max Unscanned Messages Per Scan = 500
Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan = 30

I also tried these at 30/30, 100/50, & 500/100 with no noticeable
difference. Should I just stick with the defaults of 30/30?

Eric