Machine slow

[Martin Hepworth]

Patrick

have you looked at the MAQ on tuning?

What options and extra rules have you got on the Spamassassin side of
things.

Do you reject non-existant email addresses in the inbound sendmail? I
find I drop 70% of my inbound email that way.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Patrick Chan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using Redhat 9.0 + MailScanner 4.31.6 + clamav 0.83
> I've used MailScanner for a year. Recently, I find that my machine is very slow.
> Load average is over 4.0. My users can't receive mail via ipop3d because
> from the result of command "top", the CPU resource is used up by MailScanner.
>
> When I stop using MailScanner (simply just using sendmail and procmail to block certain file extension), the speed becomes normal, load average drops back to below 1.0
>
> I checked maillog, there are many such messages:
> MailScanner[8280]: New Batch: Found 31 messages waiting
>
> But those 31 messages are not the mails for my users. Those mails seem to be spam mails.
>
> Is there any good solution for this situation? Thanks very much in advance.
>

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