Changing the Batch size value

[Arthur Sherman]

Dean,

I followed the wiki section you've mentioned.
Most tweaks were applied even before.

I enabled speed and spam logging, then:

--
Mar 20 11:30:05 ns1 MailScanner[14816]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 2180
bytes 
Mar 20 11:30:05 ns1 MailScanner[14816]: Spam Checks: Starting 
Mar 20 11:30:05 ns1 MailScanner[14816]: Message l2K9U1ba014910 from
127.0.0.1 (root at ns1.cpt.co.il) is whitelisted 
Mar 20 11:30:12 ns1 MailScanner[14816]: Spam Checks completed at 310 bytes
per second 
Mar 20 11:30:12 ns1 MailScanner[14816]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting

Mar 20 11:30:12 ns1 MailScanner[14816]: Virus Scanning completed at 8087
bytes per second 
Mar 20 11:30:12 ns1 MailScanner[14816]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages 
Mar 20 11:30:12 ns1 MailScanner[14816]: Virus Processing completed at 61320
bytes per second 
Mar 20 11:30:12 ns1 MailScanner[14816]: Batch completed at 297 bytes per
second (2180 / 7) 
Mar 20 11:30:12 ns1 MailScanner[14816]: Batch (1 message) processed in 7.32
seconds 
--

Max Children = 3
Max Unscanned ... = 10

Top:
top - 11:31:29 up 8 days, 10:35,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.01
Tasks: 103 total,   2 running, 101 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0% us,  0.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 99.7% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   3115152k total,  1186836k used,  1928316k free,   143900k buffers
Swap:  1052152k total,      548k used,  1051604k free,   619384k cached

Can you tell why it takes so long?

Thanks!



Best,

--
Arthur Sherman

+972-52-4878851
http://www.cpt.co.il/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Dean Manners
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:58 AM
> To: 'MailScanner discussion'
> Subject: RE: Changing the Batch size value
> 
> Its Azfar,
> 		Line ~260 of MailScanner.conf:
> 
> Max Unscanned Messages Per Scan = 50
> Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan = 50 
> 
> During benchmarking I found 50 message batches with "Max 
> Children = 6" to be
> the most efficient for my systems (Dell PE1950, 4Gb RAM, 2x Xeon 5110
> processors, SAS storage), but only marginely faster.  The 
> ideal value would
> be unique to each system, but the default 30 is probably spot 
> on for most.
> If your trying to speed up processing - and havent allready, try out
> mounting your MailScanner working directory in tmpfs (see
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:tweakin
> g:some_things_
> to_try_if_your_incoming_queue_is_running_slow&s=speed).
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Its Azfar
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 6:36 PM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Changing the Batch size value
> 
> Where do I change the no of mails per bacth value. Its set on 
> 30 And I want
> to change it. BTW whats better loer value or higher or just 
> default value ? 
> 
> 
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