Performance problems...

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Eric J Merkel [mailto:merkel at METALINK.NET]
> Envoyé : Friday, January 30, 2004 4:43 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 4:35 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...

How many child process do you use? (5 is the default)
Is your CPU usage always at 100%?

> 
> Eric
>