2500 timeouts a day! (Solved)

[Ugo Bellavance]

Max Kipness wrote:

>
> Thanks to everybody who replied. I think I got a handle on the various
> aspects of tuning MailScanner.
>
> Last night I conducted a test. I had a little over 1500 entries in the
> MailScanner blacklist file. I moved this file and created a blank
> blacklist file. As of a few minutes ago, I had received 1 timeout in the
> last 10 hours. As I was getting a timeout at least every few minutes,
> I'd say this has solved the problem.
>
> However, yesterday from the reports I run, it showed that 900 pieces of
> spam were blocked by blacklist. This is not to say that bayes or SA
> rules would not have picked these up anyway.
>
> Question. I currently have 512mb memory and a 2.4Ghz Celeron powering
> this MailScanner server.

That amount of memory might not be sufficient.  Did you check if your
servers swaps a lot?

> This server processes roughly 12,000 emails a
> day. What factor would is limiting the abililty for MailScanner to
> process all the entries in the blacklist? Is this a memory issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Max
>
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