70k mqueue.in but load under 1 ??

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On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Tony Johansson wrote:

> Martin,
>
> I'm running Sendmail 8.13.1 with a 3 second greet_pause

This will be a spamasassin problem, we suffered the same fate, disable SA 
and it will skim through your queue in a couple minutes.

You will need to fine tune SA, if you have 2 CPUs in that box, make 
number 
of mailscanner processes 10, batches of 50, and SA scan msg of no more 
than 30k.

To get through them now just disable spam assassin and sighup mailscanner, 
else things will only get worse.



>
> 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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