Timeouts

[Johan Guijt]

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Hi Drew,

Thanx for your fast reply.
top says the server is almost  sleeping
Beneath two small reports.

WKR Johan
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top - 22:28:22 up 2 days,  6:58,  1 user,  load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00
Tasks:  89 total,   1 running,  88 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0% us,  0.2% sy,  0.0% ni, 99.8% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   1034768k total,   998052k used,    36716k free,   344964k buffers
Swap:  2040244k total,        0k used,  2040244k free,   179716k cached
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IPcheck report

   Sensor: SMTP, SMTP

      Good Requests:    605 (=100,000%)
      Uptime:           9h 49m
      Failed Requests:  0 (=0,000%)
      Downtime:         0h 0m
      Average:          120 ms

   Sensor: PING, PING

      Good Requests:    402 (=100,000%)
      Uptime:           6h 31m
      Failed Requests:  0 (=0,000%)
      Downtime:         0h 0m
      Average:          24 ms




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drew Marshall" <drew at THEMARSHALLS.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: Timeouts


> On 12 Sep 2005, at 20:47, Johan Guijt wrote:
>
>> Last friday I did a Mailscanner update to the latest stable version 
>> (4.45.4-1 on Fedora).
>>
>> Since then I have problems -long ping times and timeouts on the  monitor 
>> system.
>>
>> The server is co-located and I am usig their servermonitor system  which 
>> sends me a SMS in case off problems.
>> They use 30ms timeout - after that it sends an SMS messsage  (average 
>> ping time now is 58ms) .
>>
>> Is it possible that Mailscanner is causing that problem? The server  is 
>> working fine and I don't have troubles receiving mail.
>> Only long ping times / checks on that port.
>
> No this sounds much more like a network issue. MailScanner doesn't  have 
> anything to do with the network.
>>
>> Can I do other tests on the server to check this?
>
> Check top just incase there is a memory issue causing the network 
> interface to behave slowly, otherwise I would refer this to your co- lo 
> host for checking.
>
> Drew
>
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