ouch - added additional domain for processing delays through the roof

[Lance]

Sorry -

Main box is RH 9.0, 1 GB RAM, Dual PIII 1.2 GHz processors. Secondary box is
a PIII 833, 512 MB RAM. Basically the MailScanner boxes front-end some Qmail
and Exchange servers depending on the recipient's domain.

Previously it was doing about 38 Messages/5 Minutes, now its at 108/5
Minutes.

Load went from 1.8 to about 7.5.

Still has 81 MB RAM available according to free.

I'm using clam and f-prot.

I just added the Spamhaus RBL to the inbound sendmail to cut down on the
number of items needing to be processed. This helped quite a bit, brought
the delays down from 12,000 seconds to 7,300 currently. I'm not quite sure
if this is a good metric, because it may contain undeliverable replies to
non-existent addresses?

What other info would you like?




> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:49 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: ouch - added additional domain for processing delays through
> the roof
>
> Lance wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> >
> >
> > We added another domain of ours (one that's been around for a long time)
> > to our MS boxes (2 load balanced) and the load has gone through the
> roof.
> >
> >
> >
> > We're now looking at delays of 12,000 seconds in mailstats, vs. 86 on
> > average previously.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any hints or tips?
>
> We need more info...  OS, hardware, software version, pre-volume,
> post-volume, logs debug info...
>
> http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/#rulespost
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >
> >
> > Lance
> >
> >
> >
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