Performance problems...

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Eric J Merkel [mailto:merkel at METALINK.NET]
> Envoyé : Friday, January 30, 2004 4:32 PM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Re: Performance problems...
> 
> 
> ----- 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....

So no mailscanner-related timeouts?  

Could we see a couple of these lines of logs?
> 
> > >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?

When you look in your logs how big are, in average, your batches?
> 
> Eric
>