Queue problem

shuttlebox shuttlebox at gmail.com
Fri Feb 29 18:04:39 GMT 2008


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Maxime Gaudreault
<mgaudreault at reference.qc.ca> wrote:
> Hi
>
> The hold queue is actually at 415 emails
>
> Load Average: 0.11 0.25 0.53
>
> htop show many of these process:
>
> MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
>
> MailScanner: checking with Spam Lists
>
> CPU is 3%
>
> Mem is 25%
>
> I don't understand

Looks like the limiting factor is the network. Probably DCC, Razor or
some RBL is acting up for you. Run MailScanner with --debug set and
look where it pauses.

Also look at your queue dirs so they are clean and not full of corrupt
files that your MTA has to stat all the time.

-- 
/peter


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