Mailscanner mqueuein trouble

[Julian Field]

On 19 Jul 2006, at 20:51, Marcos Sobral wrote:

> And what about the Queue Scan Interval?.  The default value is 30  
> ( I think), I´m testing 10 in one server to see if I get a better  
> result.
> Which is the disadvantages of using ramdisks for the /var/spool/ 
> MailScanner/incoming dir?

No disadvantages at all, this is one of the first speed improvements  
you can make. It does make quite a large difference as there is a lot  
of disk i/o being done to that directory.

>
> Thanks
> Marcos
>
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>>
>> On Wed19 Jul 06, at 19:14, Marcos Sobral wrote:
>>
>>> Checks.
>>> Virus Scan with clamav
>>> Attach Filename check
>>> SpamAssassin
>>>
>>> I forward the spam to another acount to do the spam-digest.
>>>
>>> There are some things that maybe could help me with the tunning  
>>> of MailScanner, like the Number of mails in each process, now  
>>> that I´m working with a tmpfs maybe I could rise the Max Messages  
>>> Per Scan values.
>>
>> Leave it at 30, no great reason to change this. I mostly only ever  
>> change this when debugging MailScanner. It's very rare to change  
>> this value.
>>
>>> And what about the Childs, is it good to have a good number of  
>>> childs? do they allow me to process more mail? How can I know  
>>> which amount is the right one for my servers?.
>>
>> I usually recommend 5 per normal CPU core, 8 per hyper-threading  
>> core.
>> This seems to work pretty well for 99% of users.
>>
>>> Thanks a lot!!
>>>
>>> Marcos
>>>
>>> Michele Neylon:: Blacknight.ie wrote:
>>>> .
>>>> If you up the RAM on all the servers you should see improvements.
>>>>
>>>> Which checks are you running?
>>>>
>>>>
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