Queue problem

[Glenn Steen]

On 29/02/2008, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>  Maxime Gaudreault wrote:
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>  > Hi
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>  > The hold queue is actually at 415 emails
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>  > Load Average: 0.11 0.25 0.53
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>  > htop show many of these process:
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>  > MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
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>  > MailScanner: checking with Spam Lists
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>  > CPU is 3%
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>  > Mem is 25%
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> I would start checking your DNS setup. How long does it take for various
>  random "dig" commands to produce results? MailScanner should spend a
>  very small %-age of its time saying "checking with Spam Lists". If you
>  can see several of them in that state, then that's likely a DNS lookup
>  problem.
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Or having a dead one in the list perhaps? What does your list look like Maxime?

Cheers
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