AW: Mailscanner Taking to long to Process Incoming Email

[Richard Lynch]

Karl M. Joch wrote:
> had the same on about 200 servers. changed a few ones for testing to
> clamdscan and cpu usage gone done to normal. looks like loading the
> clamav database over end over with each task was too much. but the
> original included clamav-wrapper is not really good for clamdscan. i
> have lot of errors in the syslog and looks like there are other changed
> needed too. anybody have a good script for clamdscan on freebsd and also
> a way to get the -r out of the call of the wrapper script?
>
> mayn thanks,
>
> karl
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>> Von: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] Im 
>> Auftrag von Lucio Montenegro
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. Juni 2007 18:21
>> An: MailScanner discussion
>> Betreff: Re: Mailscanner Taking to long to Process Incoming Email
>>
>> Found the culprit. It was the ClamAV slowing down the flow of 
>> email. It was spiking my cpu 100%. THis system has not been 
>> touched for about a month. I wonder why that would start? Any ideas?
>>
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>> On 6/24/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: 
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>> 	Lucio Montenegro wrote:
>> 	> Hello Everyone, 
>> 	> I currently have the current setup:
>> 	>
>> 	> Fedora Core 5
>> 	> MailScanner
>> 	> Spamassassin
>> 	> ClamAV
>> 	>
>> 	> All Messages are forwarded to my internal exchange 
>> server. I noticed
>> 	> that all messages are taking at least 250 seconds or 
>> more to process: 
>> 	>
>> 	> Jun 24 09:57:20 localhost MailScanner[9392]: Batch (1 message)
>> 	> processed in 277.04 seconds
>> 	> Jun 24 09:57:36 localhost MailScanner[9155]: Batch (1 message)
>> 	> processed in 273.49 seconds 
>> 	> Jun 24 09:57:46 localhost MailScanner[9160]: Batch (1 message)
>> 	> processed in 269.35 seconds
>> 	>
>> 	> This all started after a couple of weeks when I 
>> created a cron job to
>> 	> learn spam every 8 hours: 
>> 	>
>> 	> user --showdots --mbox --spam /var/mail/usermailbox
>> 	>
>> 	> I since then disabled the cron job and now I want to 
>> lower the process
>> 	> time. Your help is appreciated.
>> 	What timeouts do you have set in MailScanner.conf?
>> 	What else does your maillog say for each of these batches?
>> 	
>> 	Jules
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Just a quick comment. ClamAV 0.91 will greatly improve the DB load 
time.  RC2 was released today and  DB load time is an order of magnitude 
faster.

~rich

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