mail scanner stuck

[Glenn Steen]

On 13/04/06, Mike Tremaine <mgt at stellarcore.net> wrote:
> On 12/04/06, Eduardo Casarero <ecasarero at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi gurus, ive two servers with the following configuration:
> >
> > Pentium IV - 3.2Ghz /800HT 775P Intel;
> > Mother board P4 ABIT NI8-SLI/LGA/NVIDIA;
> > 4096Mb RAM DDR2/533 Kingston;
> > Winchester 160.2Gb - 7200 rpm SERIAL ATA Barracuda;
> > video PCI Express X300 Radion 256Mb;
> > network 10/100/1000;
>
> Something is obviously wrong, I've had a lot weaker boxes handling a lot
> more mail then this.
>
> I suggest trying to use "vmstat" and "iostat" to try and find the
> bottleneck. What is odd is the 4GB of RAM you have should be plenty to
> handle the SpamAssassin/MailScanner stack. [Heck I have one running on
> 512MB that handles 50,0000+, I'm not happy about it but you work with
> what they give you.]
Exactly.
What he tells us indicate IO problems, and the only really
not-tat-good part of the setup is actually the HDD..... One big
spindle, that isn't really that fast.
One might think it should keep up with the described load though:-).

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