Slow Batch Processing...

[ajos1 at onion.demon.co.uk]

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Below is a section from LogWatch... since we have gone to the latest version of MailScanner... we are getting very slow processing... and sometimes in the end we have to restart MailScanner and spamassasin to get the load average back down to 0.3 from the huge 20's and 30's it goes upto!

There is one line that says the batch was processed in 433 seconds!  This system is only getting 10 or so messages an hour...

At this instant... with one 34k message being sent out we have... Top 3 processes...

 PID USER   PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM   TIME+  COMMAND          
 327 root   15  0     0    0    0 S  0.7  0.0  0:59.54 kjournald          
5676 root   17  0 44756  17m 2660 S  0.7  6.9  0:21.61 MailScanner        
6905 root   16  0 46964  17m 2708 S  0.3  7.0  0:19.85 MailScanner        

Does anyone have a clue what I should look at first?

Thanks in advance-o, Ajos1.

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ult. : 22 Time(s)
    Expired 2 records from the SpamAssassin cache : 12 Time(s)
    Expired 3 records from the SpamAssassin cache : 8 Time(s)
    Expired 4 records from the SpamAssassin cache : 4 Time(s)
    Batch processed in 29.75 seconds : 2 Time(s)
    Expired 6 records from the SpamAssassin cache : 2 Time(s)
    Batch processed in 26.04 seconds : 2 Time(s)
    Expired 5 records from the SpamAssassin cache : 2 Time(s)
    Batch processed in 43.73 seconds : 1 Time(s)
    Batch processed in 23.82 seconds : 1 Time(s)
    Batch processed in 30.51 seconds : 1 Time(s)
    Batch processed in 22.59 seconds : 1 Time(s)
    Batch processed in 83.69 seconds : 1 Time(s)
    Batch processed in 17.55 seconds : 1 Time(s)
    Batch processed in 17.59 seconds : 1 Time(s)
    Batch processed in 18.94 seconds : 1 Time(s)
    Batch processed in 433.74 seconds : 1 Time(s)
    Batch processed in 11.35 seconds : 1 Time(s)

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