Speed problems

[Michael St. Laurent]

I experienced *extreme* slowness of the entire system running MailScanner
yesterday.  A system reboot resulted in restored performance.  I've not had
time to try and diagnose the cause yet as it has not yet repeated.  I'm
using MailScanner-4.27.7-1 on a Red Hat 9 system with Spamassassin-2.63-5
and Clamav-0.67-1.

I did not notice this happening with MailScanner-4.26.8-1.

Julian Field <mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> I have been trying to reproduce the loss of speed running various
> different versions on the same mail messages in debug mode.
> Unsuccessfully :-(
> I have used versions from 4.23 onwards. All appear to run at the same
> speed. I am using a "reasonable" configuration with 1 RBL check and
> F-Prot. The only thing is I am not running SpamAssassin, as its speed
> is very variable and so hides the real speed of the underlying
> process.
>
> If you are suffering speed problems, please can you tell me what was
> the last fast version you used, and what was the first slow version.
> Did you downgrade again to fix the problem? Was it successful, and
> what version was again nice and fast?
>
> If you run a batch through in Debug mode does it always take the same
> time regardless of what version you are running? Maybe the problem
> only surfaces when running lots of child processes?
>
> The better I can narrow down exactly when the problem occurred, the
> better chance I have of finding it. It doesn't appear to be in the
> more robust MIME code I implemented, that doesn't make any difference.
>
> Please can you help me folks?

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Michael St. Laurent
Hartwell Corporation