System load is very high because of MailScanner

[Martin Hepworth]

Hi

have you been through the MAQ/Wiki on tuning?

what extra rules in SA have you got (eg any from www.rulesemporium.com)?

Are you using any RBL'S / URI-RBLs and if so are you running a caching
name server on the host?

load average means not a lot really, just means its doing stuff. Not
that it's overloaded or anything.

What more important is how quickly you system is scanning emails, mine's
normally around 2-3 seconds per email and I've got lots of extra SA
rules, URI-RBLs, bayes, and Mailwatch and the associated DB all on the
same P4 2.8ghz machine, with around 8k messages per day of around 26k
average size.

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


BG Mahesh wrote:
> hi
>
> We are using the following config
>
> RedHat Linux [512MB RAM, dual processor]
> MailScanner 4.41.3
> SA 3.0.3
> ClamAV 0.85.1
>
> Our load average is always above 1 :-( Usually 3-6 :-( When I do 'top' I see MailScanner using anwywhere from 10-99% of CPU.
>
> We get about 10k emails per day.
>
> How do I detect what could be going wrong?
>
> --
> B.G. Mahesh
> bg.mahesh at indiainfo.com
> http://www.indiainfo.com/
>
>

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