New Batch: found 200 messages waiting, Number keeps increasing

[Derek Catanzaro]

rob wrote:
>>>       
>> The backup started occurring again this morning, reached about 1500 
>> messages waiting.  I took Res' suggestion and turned off spamassassin in 
>> the MailScanner.conf and sure enough it was only a matter of a couple 
>> minutes until the messages waiting went back down to under 200.  That 
>> will at least help in preventing delayed email (thanks Res) but now 
>> spamassassin is not running which I would obviously like to have running.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Derek
>>
>>     
>
> We ran into something like this a few months ago.  Found out the machine was swapping a
> ton with only 1 gig of RAM installed.  Once we bumped this up to 4 gigs of ram, we have
> not had the issue return.  
>
>   
This is the result of a "top" taken from the machine in question.  I 
don't think the swap file is an issue, but really not well versed in 
what is "good" or "bad" when referring to swap?

 13:48:08  up  2:53,  2 users,  load average: 6.43, 6.01, 6.17
112 processes: 109 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
           total   61.6%    0.0%   25.4%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%  112.6%
           cpu00   29.3%    0.0%    9.5%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%   61.1%
           cpu01   32.3%    0.0%   16.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%   51.5%
Mem:  2068504k av, 2026528k used,   41976k free,       0k shrd,   90976k 
buff
      1132356k active,             815024k inactive
Swap: 1831912k av,    8304k used, 1823608k free                  326936k 
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