70k mqueue.in but load under 1 ??

[Richard Frovarp]

Is anything timing out? If you are doing one a second with 10 children, 
that is about a 10 second timeout. Is Razor, Pyzor, DCC, or DNS lookups 
timing out? RBL is 20 seconds with Razor and Pyzor  at a 10 second 
timeout. I don't see a default setting for DCC. Running a lint on 
SpamAssissin might help you figure out if anything is timing out.

Richard

Furnish, Trever G wrote:
> I'm experiencing very similar symptoms here.  My queue is very backed
> up, but my load average is much lower than normal, and I'm not noticing
> an obvious cause.  Iowait is similarly low.
>
> I've noticed that while mail is flowing in at a quick rate, the
> MailScanner processing is not keeping up at all.  With 10 children and
> batches of 30 messages each, I'm seeing batch processing taking 300
> seconds per batch and that only translates to 1 message processed per
> second.  Eyeballing the maillog I think I'm actually getting even less
> than that.  System normally processes much more quickly.
>
> I ran a batch using debugging for both MailScanner and SpamAssassin, but
> it doesn't seem to have any timing info in the lines so after the batch
> ran I can't tell how long each line took to appear.  Anyone know if
> there's a way to get timing info in the spamassassin debugging output?
>
> I'm thinking of trying to write a little perl script to accept the
> output of MailScanner in debugging mode and inject timestamps after each
> newline...
>
>  
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
>> Of Tony Johansson
>> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 6:47 AM
>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> Subject: Re: 70k mqueue.in but load under 1 ??
>>
>> Martin,
>>
>> I'm running Sendmail 8.13.1 with a 3 second greet_pause
>>
>> maillog says:
>> Nov 27 12:28:54 ms01 MailScanner[17258]: Creating hardcoded 
>> struct_flock subroutine for linux (Linux-type) Nov 27 
>> 12:32:59 ms01 MailScanner[17707]: Using locktype = posix
>>
>> Regards, Tony
>>
>>
>>
>> Martin Hepworth skrev:
>>     
>>> Tony
>>>
>>> what MTA?
>>>
>>> Recent MS versions assume if you are using sendmail, it's 
>>>       
>> 8.13.x and 
>>     
>>> thus the lock type is posix, not flock as is for v 8.12.x 
>>>       
>> and previous.
>>     
>>> if you are using sendmail 8.12 you'll need to force the 
>>>       
>> lock type to 
>>     
>>> 'flock' in mailScanner.conf.
>>>
>>> Another issue is the way certain spam is using email, it 
>>>       
>> can cause a 
>>     
>>> big problem with sendmail 8.12. Only solution is to upgrade to 8.13 
>>> and use the greet_pause feature.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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