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 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: Performance problems...


> > > >
> > > > 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?
>

No I have not seen any mailscanner timeouts.

[SNIP]

> > 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?

Jan 30 16:38:26 mail-relay2 MailScanner[21342]: New Batch: Found 1780
messages waiting
Jan 30 16:38:26 mail-relay2 MailScanner[21342]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages, 180920 bytes
Jan 30 16:38:31 mail-relay2 MailScanner[21070]: New Batch: Found 1770
messages waiting
Jan 30 16:38:31 mail-relay2 MailScanner[21070]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages, 162553 bytes
Jan 30 16:39:16 mail-relay2 MailScanner[21202]: New Batch: Found 1853
messages waiting
Jan 30 16:39:16 mail-relay2 MailScanner[21202]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages, 164949 bytes
Jan 30 16:39:16 mail-relay2 MailScanner[20746]: New Batch: Found 1847
messages waiting
Jan 30 16:39:16 mail-relay2 MailScanner[20746]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages, 238563 bytes
Jan 30 16:39:23 mail-relay2 MailScanner[20943]: New Batch: Found 1805
messages waiting
Jan 30 16:39:23 mail-relay2 MailScanner[20943]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages, 430321 bytes
Jan 30 16:39:24 mail-relay2 MailScanner[21070]: New Batch: Found 1804
messages waiting
Jan 30 16:39:24 mail-relay2 MailScanner[21070]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages, 233221 bytes
Jan 30 16:39:31 mail-relay2 MailScanner[21342]: New Batch: Found 1790
messages waiting
Jan 30 16:39:31 mail-relay2 MailScanner[21342]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages, 153695 bytes

This seems about typical...

Eric