A very slow MS 4.62.2-3 & SA 3.2.1 & ClamAV 0.91 machine

[Chris Sweeney]

I have the same problem, on Sunday I upgraded a MailScanner box running
RHEL 4 to the latest Spamassassin/ClamAV using the tar file from the site
and I went on that machine, (2GIG RAM, 3GHZ processor) from less then 4
seconds total processing time per message to now over 40 seconds per
message.  40 seconds is good right now, it doesn't seem to be anything to
do with MailScanner it seems to be hanging at the virus/spamassassin
scanning.

Chris


> I have five mail gateways. Here are a few things I've done that helped a
> lot.
>
> The item that made the biggest difference was changing 'Max Unscanned
> Messages Per Scan = 30' to 10, and changing 'Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan
> = 30' to 10 as well.
>
> I also increased my "Max Children" to 10, but I'm still working on
> tweaking that (only been running MailScanner in production for a week
> now).
>
> I had one machine that could not keep up with the volume of mail. I
> couldn't figure out why one machine was having trouble when the rest were
> doing fine. Soon I discovered that Spamassassin was causing a huge slow
> down on that one box. It was hanging for ever on checking if dns was
> avaiable or not. I set 'dns_available no' in the spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> file and things sped waaayyy up. I changed it on my other relays and it
> made a significant different on them as well, but not as much as the one
> relay that couldn't keep up with mail orginially. I still haven't figured
> out why it so greatly effected that one machine.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Good luck.
>
> David Gottschalk
> Emory University Infrastructure Technology Services
> david.gottschalk at emory.edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Quentin
> Campbell
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:37 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: A very slow MS 4.62.2-3 & SA 3.2.1 & ClamAV 0.91 machine
>
> I have a very slow mail gateway among the 4 that I have just upgraded.
>
> They all run MS 4.62.2-3, SA 3.2.1 and ClamAV 0.91 and should have
> identical configurations for MS and SA. MCP processing is done and it is
> the same on all 4.
>
> There were 211 batches of 30 messages each processed on the slow machine.
> Overall the average time to process each message is 15 seconds!
>
> The last two of these batches were processed by running MailScanner in
> debug mode. The average processing time for each message then dropped to
> between 2 and 3 seconds!
>
> I am trying to get a handle on why this machine is so slow. Any
> suggestions to help further my investigation are welcome.
>
> Quentin
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