What is going on? Totally bizzare

[Leonardo Helman]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0400, Dave wrote:
> Even if there is only one message to process it doesn't do anything just
> sites there and does nothing.
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> I think I know what's going on, 5 children is a no go on this machine, just
> doesn't like it. 2 children sometimes works.
> 1 child it works 100%. But even at 2 children the process load isn't that
> much, at that point I start to get a lot of SA
> timeouts. But at 1 it's fine! Go figure. Turned off Spam Logging and it
> works fine at 1 child but iffy at 2.
>
> What's the average people are seeing in processing mail per-minute? I just a
> few tests, and seems like I'm able to chew away
> at 10 messages a-minute.
It depends, we have more than 1 per second on
a Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz (6094 bogomips) 2Gb
but, you have this in the MAQ

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Saludos
LeoH

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> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Julian Field
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:51 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: What is going on? Totally bizzare
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> If you aren't logging spam, it will sit there silently doing all the spam
> analysis on the message batch before doing anything else. This can take
> quite a while, depending on your spam settings. If something is wrong with
> your network connection, this could be a few minutes.
>
> At 15:50 23/09/2004, you wrote:
> >Ok now this is interesting..
> >
> >MS seems to work now, as long as I have LOG SPAM set to YES. If it's
> >set to NO, MS doesn't seem to work! Just sits there. I then change to
> >back to YES from No and reload MS and bang starts to work again...
> >Just as it was doing while in debug mode. So now I don't have it in debug
> >mode, and LOG SPAM set to YES and it's working...
> >
> >I'm going to try and few things today and make sure this is what's
> >happening. Can someone else try this?
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