MailScanner & Hyper threading

[Gib Gilbertson Jr.]

At 12:14 AM 5/13/2004 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>We have a MailScanner box which seems to be cursed, it's a hyper threading
>Pentium 4 processor box with 1 gig of ram and 7200RPM disks.  The problem
>we're seeing is that it doesn't seem to be able to process much more than
>5000 messages per day without having huge backlogs on the inbound queue
>regardless of what we do.
>
>Here's the config:
>
>Sendmail 8.12.x
>DCC
>Razor
>Spamassassin 2.63
>RBL's enabled
>Local Caching Nameserver
>/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming in tmpfs
>/tmp in tmpfs
>Bayes DB's are held in TMPFS & backed up to disk regularly in case of
>reboot.

How much free memory do you have? You might be running out of ram and
swapping to hd.


>The config is identical software wise to all of our other boxes but we just
>can't seem to get the box processing mail like the others which happily
>process up to 20k each with load averages rarely above 2 and mqueue.in very
>rarely backing up.
>
>We've recently swapped the hard drives out with entirely different brands
>etc and we've also tried moving from RedHat 9 to Suse Enterprise, then to
>RedHat Enterprise, but none of these have fixed the issues.
>
>Has anyone else had an experience like this?  Do you have any pointers?  I'm
>almost 100% certain it's hardware but I need to prove it's not MailScanner
>or any of it's attached software.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Regards,
>
>David Hooton
>Senior Partner
>Platform Networks
>www.platformnetworks.net
>
>
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      Gib Gilbertson Jr.
     Tierramiga Info Systems
      619-287-8647 Support
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