100% processor utilisation

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

Take Clam out of your configuration and try reprocessing some mail. See if
that makes much difference

Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknightsolutions.ie/
http://www.search.ie/
Tel. + 353 (0)59 9137101
Lowest price domains in Ireland

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of M. Schievink
> Sent: 18 March 2004 12:32
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] 100% processor utilisation
>
>
> We use ClamAV 0.67 as virusscanner.
>
> It hardly takes any time to process messages, only a few seconds total.
> So I think the processor does something, but nothing that it should be
> really busy with.
>
> So basicly everything works okay (as in the mails get scanned and
> delivered fast enough), but MailScanner just seems to do something that
> makes it go to to 100% processor utilisation.
>
> I'll take a look at the beta.
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] Namens
> Martin Hepworth
> Verzonden: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:20 PM
> Aan: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Onderwerp: Re: 100% processor utilisation
>
> Martin
>
> how long does it take to process messages - that's what you should be
> worrying about. Processor utilisation just means it's chugging along
> doing something but it might not be really really busy..its kinda
> complicated with a real O/S (ie non windows) to explain..
>
> There where some code changes around the beginning of 4.28 version in
> order to catch the virus in encrypted zip file and other issues that
> seemed to slowed the processing down for some people.
>
> Worth checking out the 4.29.1 beta, it does seem quite a bit faster on
> my system.
>
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> M. Schievink wrote:
> > Sorry bout the HTML, should be in plain text now.
> >
> > It's 100% all the time, if I stop MailScanner, my processor
> utilisation
> > drops to 1-2%. I checked my maillogs, but nothing special comes up
> > there, it seems to scan the emails fine because it ran into some
> viruses
> > and deleted them. It's just the processor utilisation that worries me,
> > also it's not a high traffic mailserver, say around 1 mail / minute.
> So
> > that shouldn’t be a problem.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]
> Namens
> > Ugo Bellavance
> > Verzonden: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 6:04 PM
> > Aan: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Onderwerp: Re: 100% processor utilisation
> >
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : M. Schievink [mailto:schievink at AKYLA.NL]
> > Envoyé : 17 mars, 2004 11:07
> > À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Objet : 100% processor utilisation
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > We've just installed MailScanner 4.28.6-1.
> >
> > We are using:
> > RedHat 7.3 with a 2.4.18 kernel
> > Perl version 5.6.1
> > No spamassassin
> > Installed from a tar
> >
> > The problem that we have is the following, the MailScanner process
> takes
> > almost 100% cpu utilisation.
> >
> >       15   0 12688  12M  7792 R    97.7  4.9  23:45 MailScanner
> >
> > Is this a well known problem and do you have any idea how to solve
> this
> > problem?
> >
> > <UB>
> > normal to be 100% when it is working. is it 100% all the time?  what
> is
> > your load?
> > Please avoid HTML in posts
> > </UB>
> >
> >  With regards,
> >
> > Martin Schievink
> >
> > Akyla Websolutions
> > Hengelosestraat 705
> > 7521 PA Enschede
> > Telefoon: 053-4836386
> > Fax: 053-4836396
> > http://www.akyla.nl
>
> **********************************************************************
>
> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
> intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they
> are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify
> the system manager.
>
> This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept
> for the presence of computer viruses and is believed to be clean.
>
> **********************************************************************
>


-- 
Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous content.
Visit http://www.blacknight.ie for more information