optimisation hints required & broken links on wiki

[hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org]

Sandro Dentella wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:06:46PM +0100, Gareth wrote:
>> What is your setting for 'Max Children' in MailScanner.conf?
>> Given your processor and amount of RAM it should be set to no more than
>> 10.
> 
> I said i'm using dual xeon 3 GB. Better would have been 'dual xeon biproc'. 
> That's 4 procs (0-3 in /proc/cpuinfo). 
> 
> According to that mean config man page should be 4 processes for CPU. So I
> should raise again to 20. Do I understand correctly?

I would keep it at 10 process and concentrate on other suspects.

Check each and every RBL in your spamassassin and MailScanner config. I
wrote a procedure for this a short while ago so it is in the archives.

Hugo.
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