Slow Delivery

[Gib Gilbertson Jr.]

There has been a dramatic increase in viruses the last 24 hours. On my
system it has gone from about 400 found per day to 1300 so far today. When
I got up this morning there were almost 3000 queued messages.

I increased "Max Children = 5" to 10 until mail caught up. This took about
10 minutes and then dropped the setting down to 7.

The only thing I can think of is on my system the virus laden mail was
coming in faster than 5 processes could handle it. With 10 running I only
had about 20MB out of 1GB of ram so dropped it back down to 7 and it seems
to be keeping up with no problem now.. System loads were not a problem
before or after the changes.

With just 5 processes running it was getting farther and farther behind
with each scan run.

MS, ClamAV, SA on FreeBSD

gib



At 04:52 PM 3/23/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Quoting GaryP <garyp at COAM.NET>:
>
> > We are using the latest version of MS and SA on a Redhat ES3.0 machine.
> > What's happening is the mail is pilling up in mqueue.in and is not getting
> > delivered for hours it seems.  Any thoughts on what to look for or where to
> > start looking for the bottleneck?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gary ...
> >
> > --
> > Vegetarian Recipes! (http://www.vegipes.com)
> >
>Do you have all of your perl mod's installed?
>read the perl readme in the docs directory
>
>
>-Ian


      Gib Gilbertson Jr.
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