Mailscanner treats the mails very slowly

[Mike Kercher]

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What does your /etc/resolv.conf have in it?

Mike
 

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of ste baume
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 2:05 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mailscanner treats the mails very slowly

Hello, 

I omitted to speak about it but cache DNS is active.
I just changed on spam.assassin.pref.conf the following directives :
 dns_available yes
 rbl_timeout 5 (instead 20)

What do you think about it ?

Thanks

Stephane

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Do you run DNS on your mailscanner box?  Are DNS
lookups slow?
> Having local (cached) DNS on the mailscanner box can
make a
> big difference in thruput.
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
> 
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, ste baume wrote:
> 
>> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 18:28:28 +0200
>> From: ste baume <stebaume2004 at YAHOO.FR>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list
<MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Mailscanner treats the mails very slowly
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Since many days our MailScanner server have a
curious
>> behavior:
>> - Most of the time they work slowly (less than 50 mails by minute are 
>> treated) which causes latency
to
>> mail delivery (up to 4 hours)
>> - Sometimes, they work normaly and they can empty
the
>> queues.
>>
>>
>> First we suspected an issue between the Mailscanner server and the 
>> Exchange servers. But after many tests all seem to
be
>> OK on this point.
>>
>>
>> When we disable SpamAssasin from the
mailscanner.conf,
>> the queues
>> decrease quickly, but after hours the queues
increase
>> again.
>> When we disable the Anti-virus from
mailscanner.conf,
>> we have no improvement.
>> When we diable Mailscanner, and use only postfix,
we
>> have no problem.
>>
>> Volume : 150 000 messages per day
>> Hardware : 1 Pentium Xeon 2.4G, 1.5 MB RAM, 36G
SCSI
>> HDD
>> Software : RHE3, Mailscanner 4.40.11, Postfix
2.2.1,
>> SpammAssassin 3.0.2, Kaspersky 5.0
>> RBL : Postfix (SpamCop, ORDB, SPAMHAUS); None in MailScanner, all in 
>> SPAMASSASSIN Average Load : Around 6
>>
>> Is anybody can help us please, we are in dead end ?
>>
>> Stephane


	

	
        	
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