loop and load problems..

[Scott Silva]

Gordon Colyn spake the following on 9/14/2006 1:13 PM:
> ITNT Banner CampaignI have a problem on my mailscanner where my avg load 
> goes suddenly from 0.5 to 1.5 and remains there for days including weekends 
> when there is very little traffic.  After some investigation I found the 
> following;
> 
> [root at sentinal3 ~]# tail -f /var/log/mail/info | grep messages
> Sep 14 21:50:15 sentinal3 MailScanner[5803]: Spam Checks: Found 23 spam 
> messages
> Sep 14 21:50:24 sentinal3 MailScanner[6015]: New Batch: Scanning 30 
> messages, 288635 bytes
> Sep 14 21:50:52 sentinal3 MailScanner[6015]: Spam Checks: Found 23 spam 
> messages
> Sep 14 21:51:03 sentinal3 MailScanner[7661]: New Batch: Scanning 30 
> messages, 288635 bytes
> Sep 14 21:51:23 sentinal3 MailScanner[7661]: Spam Checks: Found 23 spam 
> messages
> Sep 14 21:51:32 sentinal3 MailScanner[7733]: New Batch: Scanning 30 
> messages, 288635 bytes
> Sep 14 21:51:56 sentinal3 MailScanner[7733]: Spam Checks: Found 23 spam 
> messages
> Sep 14 21:52:03 sentinal3 MailScanner[7567]: New Batch: Scanning 30 
> messages, 288635 bytes
> 
> I stopped delivery by blocking port 25 with my firewall and found that 
> mailscanner was not doing anything with the above messages, going into a 
> loop and causing one of the child processes to sit at 45-60% of cpu usage.
> 
> When I check the mail queue there are messages that are 2 days old sitting 
> in the queue with a status sending.  When I delete these the rest of the 
> messages are processed and the load drops to 0.13.....
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
Which TNEF decoder are you using? Internal or external.
Is the external fairly current.
Did you actually delete those messages, or just move them so you could analyze
their content?


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