MailScanner can't keep up

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Feb 22 19:26:09 GMT 2006


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Drew Burchett wrote:
> It's definitely having a memory issue.  It's using all available.
> However, reducing the number of children, or even the number of mails
> scanned per pass doesn't seem to speed anything up.  I think there may
> be some issue with either the base machine configuration or possibly a
> hardware issue.  I've started forwarding all the traffic to a machine
> half the size of this one and it's keeping up just fine.  Looks like a
> reformat and reinstall may be in order, but any other suggestions are
> more than welcome.
>   
You should be able to run 1 child in 512Mb without too much of a 
problem. Make sure nothing else is hogging memory (e.g. nscd).
> And yes, 512Mb is not a lot for a mail scanner, but I can't seem to get
> my boss to spring for any more.
>   
The amount of money your wasted time is costing him is far more than the 
cost of the RAM. Point that out to him and see if he reacts.
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