Server Configuration for Mail Scanner

[Mustafa N. Deeb]

Hi


Could it be OS related, or Mailscanner?

The disk for example is active a lot,  I always have 200 to 300 messages
in incoming Q , according to mailscanner-mrtg, but if I let's say
restarted the mailscanner process , immediately 3000 messages will get
queued, and it would  mailscanner  3-4 hours processing them ..

During that, the load jumps to 15, sendmail stops accepting connection.


The important question is ,

Mail scanner, (with clamav and spamassassin, dcc), is it a Memory eater,
CPU or IO?  Or who comes first?




Cheers


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Mustafa N. Deeb
Technical Director
Palnet Communications Ltd.
Tel: +970-2-2403434
Fax: +970-2-2403430
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-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 2:15 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Server Configuration for Mail Scanner

At 08:42 08/05/2004, you wrote:
>I'm running Mailscanner on Dual XEON 2.4, 2 G RA
>We receive a minimum of 128k message a day
>Load on server ranges between 6 and 10
>Is this typical, or I have a problem in my system, and that's why I
have
>high load on the server/

A high load when running MailScanner is perfectly normal. It works your
server very hard!
You should only worry if your incoming mail queue starts to get really
big.
With 128k messages per day, it might well run with an average of 100-200
messages apparently just sitting in the incoming queue, that's normal
too.
But if it keeps growing, then your server is not keeping up with the
traffic. At that point you should start investigating ways of optimising
your setup.
--
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

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