Work load

[Julian Field]

At 15:54 17/03/2004, you wrote:
>I had a small problem with MailScanner.  One of our clients, decided to
>install a new e-mail server and leave it as an open relay, and send all
>their mail through us.  So they were blasting several thousand of e-mails
>through us.  SpamAssassin and MailScanner luckily started yanking these
>messages out as quickly as it could.  However, this really quickly tossed a
>lot of mail into mqueue.in.  MailScanner had some problems catching back up.
>Eventually we got to about 8,000 messages in queue with a huge delay in
>messages.  Has anyone else experienced a problem like this, or know what
>tweaks I can do to help this if it happends again?  Increasing the # of
>child processes doesn't seem to help, and it is currently set to 5.

Make sure you have a version new enough to have the "Max Normal Queue Size"
setting, as that version (and later ones) handle large queues a lot faster
than older versions. I would advise setting it to somewhere between 500 and
1000. RTM for what the option does.
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Julian Field
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