Postfix queue fulling up

[Scott Silva]

on 10/17/2007 8:33 AM Maxime Gaudreault spake the following:
> I have a serious problem with my antispam gateway. The postfix queue is 
> fulling up. It gets to 200-300 and even sometime more than 2000 mails in 
> the queue.
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> The server is a HP BL20P G4. CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
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> 1Gb RAM
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> I noticed that the load average is about 2.0. If I check with "htop" I 
> often see MailScanner: spam list or MailScanner: Checking with 
> spamassassin using 100% of CPU. RAM is used to 50%.
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> MailScanner version: 4.64.3
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> SpamAssassin version: 3.1.7-2 (from Debian repos.)
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> I use FuzzyOCR, razor and DCC. I rarely had this problem before using 
> razor and dcc and before upgrading to MS 4.64.3.
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> Here are some config from MailScanner.conf
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> Max Children = 5
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> Queue Scan Interval = 6
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> Restart Every = 14400
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> Max Unscanned Bytes Per Scan = 100000000
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> Max Unsafe Bytes Per Scan = 50000000
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> Max Unscanned Messages Per Scan = 30
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> Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan = 30
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> I'm thinking of adding a 2^nd CPU but I want to know if I can change 
> some settings to fix the problem
> 
Have you run through the optimizing steps on the wiki?
http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips


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