Troubleshooting questions

[Julian Field]

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That re-install would have installed the upgraded MIME-tools, which is
where the problem probably was.

jester wrote:

> No cache servers and no IPV6, but what has worked is a reinstall of
> all the
> MailScanner modules (html parser, SA and Razor) and forced the new copies
> of the files over the old ones. This seems to have solved the queue
> problem
> and is working fine now.
>
> Im not sure why this has fixed my problem (since same files, same
> sizes and
> all) , but its ran for over 5 hrs now and the mqueue.in is less than
> 10 now
> consistently. I know longer see delays or large build ups.
>
> At 12:38 PM 1/7/2005, you 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.
>>
>> Drew
>>
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