New MS install is slow to an extreme

Eduardo Casarero ecasarero at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 18:34:27 IST 2008


Check this option in mailscanner.conf
ClamAV Full Message Scan = no

how do you do the bayes expire?

if it's set to yes really slows down de process.

Do you have /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming on tmpfs?

hope this helps!

2008/4/2, DAve <dave.list at pixelhammer.com>:
> Not certain what is wrong here. I did a fresh clean install of FreeBSD 6.2,
> Julian's MS tarball and Julian's SA and Clam tarball. Everything went well,
> everything runs. But, now I am seeing batches like this.
>
>  MailScanner[58796]: New Batch: Found 2907 messages waiting
>  MailScanner[58796]: New Batch: Scanning 30 messages, 306454 bytes
>  MailScanner[56909]: Batch completed at 790 bytes per second (398241 / 503)
>  MailScanner[56909]: Batch (30 messages) processed in 503.55 seconds
>
>  Previously we had maybe 4 messages per batch and processed them in 2 to 6
> seconds. The current time to scan is killing me.
>
>  mailscanner-install-4.67.6-1.tar.gz
>
>  install-clam-0.92.1-sa-3.2.4.tar.gz
>
>  SA plugins enabled, all others disabled = AutoLearnThreshold, Check,
> Shortcircuit, Bayes, BodyEval, HTMLEval, HeaderEval, MIMEEval, RelayEval,
> URIEval, WLBLEval, Rule2XSBody, ImageInfo, URIDNSBL.
>  All SA rules have been compiled.
>  Bayes is enabled.
>  I have "skip_rbl_checks 1"
>  shortcircuit ALL_TRUSTED           on
>  shortcircuit BAYES_99              spam
>  shortcircuit BAYES_00              ham
>
>  In MS I have the following, I can send a complete conf if needed.
>  Max Children = 10
>  Queue Scan Interval = 5
>  Virus Scanners = clamavmodule
>  Delivery Method = batch
>
>  I don't zip attachments, I don't use MCP, I don't use Watermarks. I think I
> have done everything I can for speed, but I am losing ground.
>
>  I am running a local caching name server on each MS server.
>
>  Not sure where to go from here.
>
>  DAve
>
>
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