Debug on a production server

[Ugo Bellavance]

Mikael Syska wrote:
> Hi,
>>> There does not seem to be much info on this ... and my scan times are 
>>> also rather high ... not that its a problem atm ... but it could be 
>>> in the future :-(
>>
>> Please provide more information:
>>
>> Hardware
> OS: FreeBSD 7 ( yes its current, but 6.4 did not perform very disk with 
> the SAS 5iR controller
> 2GB ram
> Dual Core Intel Xeon 3060 2.40 Ghz
>> # of child processes
> 8
>> scan times of full batches.
> Oct 11 18:48:58 spam02 MailScanner[72858]: Batch (15 messages) processed 
> in 89.57 seconds
> Oct 11 18:49:08 spam02 MailScanner[72872]: Batch (15 messages) processed 
> in 88.72 seconds
> Oct 11 18:49:10 spam02 MailScanner[72854]: Batch (15 messages) processed 
> in 106.89 seconds
> Oct 11 18:49:19 spam02 MailScanner[72865]: Batch (15 messages) processed 
> in 105.85 seconds

Looks fine.  Is there a reason why you use 15 message batches?

>> Using RBLs at MTA
> nope ... we have had very bad exprerience with that ... both tried 
> spamcop and spamhaus ... both have to many FP here in denmark ....

Spamcop is FP-prone, but I've never heard of a FP in north america for 
spamhaus.

> Its not a problem that I takes so long time .. just saw the message 
> about the patch and wandered if that would make a diff on my scan times ...

Ok, I doubt so. Did you put the MailScanner working dir and /tmp in 
memory (tmpfs on linux)?