Strange HI Load

[Thomas Chamtieh]

Steve,

Thanks for your insight. It's totally weird, I have 4 other server
running the same version and all identical. These were running fine
before the upgrade. When I say hi LA I'm talking about 70-85% almost
killing the server. On the other 4 servers I have, the LA never goes
above 1.7 and usually is about 0.4-0.7, and these server handle a lot
more mail that the trouble ones.

Thanks,

-Thomas
 
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > After I upgraded from 4.46 to 4.54 I started seeing hi load on 2 
> > servers. Looking at the processes. The noticed that after a 
> > couple of 
> > hours I have 30-40 MailScanner processes in "waiting for 
> > messages" mode.
> > I have restart every 30 mins. We process over 200K emails a 
> > day. I try 
> > as much as I can to take a lod off MailScanner, for example, I use 
> > sbl-xbl in sendmail and RBL checking in SpamAssassin, I'm not using 
> > RulesDuJour. So it shouldn't be acting that way.
> > 
> > Your help is appreciated, I have to check on these 2 
> > servers every 2 
> > hours and restart the MailScanner to get ride of the hung processes.
> 
> As an afterthought, I have an almost identical server. It's 
> message count per day is very close to the problem server. I 
> have always had bayes expiry files on the problem server, and 
> almost never on the proper acting one.
> 
> I see where I have about 4 times the number of tokens in the 
> Bayes database on the problem machine that I have on the 
> proper one. The number of expired tokens on the two machines 
> is really extraordinarily difference during an expiry.
> 
> I used to run a cron job to delete the Bayes expire files 
> just to keep the directory clean, but just turned that off in 
> the event I was deleting real, valid files, ... so we'll see.
> 
> Steve  
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -Thomas
> > 
>