Troubleshooting questions

[Julian Field]

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Drew Marshall wrote:

> 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!
>
>
> Are you running a caching name server? If not do so as it could well be
> DNS issues. Some ISPs get excited about too many DNS requests and start
> to tar pit for example. The other slow down I have also seen is a slow
> down due to IPv6 resolution so it's also worth a check if you are not
> running IPv6 on your network.

Have you tried running a few batches through it in Debug=yes mode?
Are you running MIME-tools 5.415? If so, upgrade to 5.416 (latest) or my
patched 5.415 (which I distribute with 4.37.7) as this fixes a
potentially important problem.
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