Troubleshooting questions

Fri Jan 7 17:09:59 GMT 2005

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I WAS running bigevil, but have taken it off as a possible problem.
Here is an output from sar:
06:30:00 AM       CPU     %user     %nice   %system     %idle
06:40:01 AM       all     57.81      0.00     15.23     26.96
06:50:05 AM       all     60.78      0.00     15.46     23.76
07:00:04 AM       all     65.73      0.00     16.22     18.06
07:10:07 AM       all     63.30      0.00     16.32     20.38
07:20:01 AM       all     61.95      0.00     15.86     22.18
07:30:04 AM       all     63.02      0.00     16.35     20.63
07:40:01 AM       all     59.53      0.00     16.26     24.22
07:50:02 AM       all     50.43      0.00     15.69     33.88
08:00:06 AM       all     58.38      0.00     19.44     22.18
08:10:01 AM       all     52.45      0.00     13.47     34.08
08:20:00 AM       all     34.92      0.00     11.90     53.17
08:30:01 AM       all     39.00      0.00     12.71     48.29
08:40:00 AM       all     42.83      0.00     13.41     43.76
08:50:00 AM       all     50.41      0.00     15.12     34.47
09:00:00 AM       all     50.95      0.00     12.69     36.36
09:10:00 AM       all     40.63      0.00     12.46     46.91
09:20:01 AM       all     46.27      0.00     13.42     40.32
09:30:01 AM       all     42.10      0.00     11.73     46.17
09:40:00 AM       all     36.15      0.00     10.33     53.52
09:50:00 AM       all     23.29      0.00      8.03     68.68
10:00:00 AM       all     26.20      0.00      9.98     63.82
10:10:01 AM       all     23.46      0.00      8.55     67.99
10:20:02 AM       all     27.52      0.00     10.37     62.11
10:30:01 AM       all     39.44      0.00     11.16     49.41
10:40:00 AM       all     40.79      0.00     15.53     43.67
10:50:02 AM       all     36.37      0.00     16.14     47.49
11:00:13 AM       all     40.42      0.00     14.27     45.31
Average:          all     52.40      0.00     14.47     33.12

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Mike Kercher
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 11:07 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Troubleshooting questions

jester wrote:
> I too am having the same problem. In trying to trace this problem we
> have tried turning off SA, Razor and DSPAM, and only using RBL checks
> and the mqueue.in is still continually climbing. After I restart
> MailScanner it seems to run fine and clear queue in a few minutes,
> but, after running for over an hour, the queue.in will climb back to
> over 1k (almost like something is dying, but no idea as to what is).
> I have checked razor in dbug and shows to be ok, same with SA. I have
> run MailScanner in debug and all seems fine. I have no idea what
> could be causing this.
>
> Using MailScanner 4.3.3
> SA 3.0.2
> DSPAM 3.2.4
> RedHat 1gig memory
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> thanks
> Michael
>
>
> At 09:03 AM 1/7/2005, you wrote:
>
>> Hi, thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.
>>
>> I am getting a HUGHE (40,000 ) buildup of messages in mqueue.in. In
>> reviewing the logs (/var/log/maillog), I see a lot of information
>> about MCP scanning, I have this set to "no" in my MailScanner.conf ,
>> should I be seeing any activity for MCP with this disabled?
>>
>> Anyone else expierience this problem? Any ideas what to look at?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Carl
>>
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Are either of you running the bigevil ruleset by chance?  local caching
nameserver?  What is the system load?

Mike

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