Performance

[Scott Silva]

John Schmerold spake the following on 1/30/2007 10:12 PM:
> We're seeing significant backlogs, mail is taking 2-6 hours to get thru
> the Postfix/Mailscanner gauntlet we've setup. What's everyone else
> seeing in terms of mail processing time?
> 
> I've looked at the home page & WIKI, so, I'm guessing I am missing
> something or there are new techniques not yet published on the
> mailscanner.info
> 
> Some of my statistics are as follows:
> Server config: 2.8GHz P4, 2GB DDR2, Maxtor SATA HDD
> Mail volume: approx 7,500 messages per day
> Misc: We have set the noatime flag on spool and log partitions & use a
> local DNS caching nameserver.
> 
> MS Configuration:
> [root at mx1 ~]# cat /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> # See http://www.mailscanner.info/MailScanner.conf.index.html for all
> options & defaults
> %etc-dir% = /etc/MailScanner
> %mcp-dir% = /etc/MailScanner/mcp
> %org-long-name% = Schmerold
> %org-name% = Schmerold
> %report-dir% = /etc/MailScanner/reports/en
> %rules-dir% = /etc/MailScanner/rules
> %web-site% = www.schmerold.com
> 
> Always Include SpamAssassin Report = yes
> Archive Mail = /etc/MailScanner/rules/archive.rules
> High Scoring Spam Actions = store
> High SpamAssassin Score = 7
> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/hold
> Incoming Work Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> Language Strings = /etc/MailScanner/reports/en/languages.conf
> MTA = postfix
> Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/incoming
> Required SpamAssassin Score = 4
> Restart Every = 7200
> Run As Group = postfix
> Run As User = postfix
> Sign Clean Messages = no
> SpamAssassin Site Rules Dir = /etc/mail/spamassassin
> 
> Log Speed = yes
> Max Children = 2
You have enough oomph to run more than 2 children. See if doubling it helps.

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