Queue problem

[Jason Ede]

Maxine,

If you do that you'll need to make sure the output is time stamped so that it can be seen whats taking the time. I seem to remember there is a method on the list a short time back.

Jason


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Maxime Gaudreault
> Sent: 01 March 2008 17:16
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Queue problem
>
> I don't understand when to stop, start again etc.. (i don't speak
> english very well)
>
> However, I can redirect the output to a log file. Can I send it to you
> ?
>
> Maxime Gaudreault
> Technicien
>
> Référence Systèmes inc.
> Tél. : 418.650.0997
> Téléc. : 418.650.9668
> Courriel : mgaudreault at reference.qc.ca
> Site Internet : http://www.reference.qc.ca/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: March 1, 2008 12:03 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Queue problem
>
> In which case your DNS lookups should be okay. That's a perfectly
> reasonable figure in my experience.
>
> Run "MailScanner --debug --debug-sa". It will produce loads of output.
> However, at some point in the SpamAssassin output, it will pause for a
> second or two. You want to catch it there, then resume it and then
> immediately stop it again, as the bits you are interested in are the
> lines of output printed out immediately *after* the pause.
>
> This can take a few goes to catch, though someone did post a nice
> command the other day to prepend each line of output with the current
> time, so you could see easily when (and how long) the pauses were. Can
> someone repost that please? If I can find it, I'll work out how to
> build
> it into the MailScanner debug output directly. It will help diagnose
> this sort of problem a lot.
>
> This output should tell you where the pauses are, and therefore what
> operations are taking too long.
>
> Maxime Gaudreault wrote:
> > Hi Jule
> >
> > Dig results comes within 41-108 msec
> >
> > Maxime Gaudreault
> > Technicien
> >
> > Référence Systèmes inc.
> > Tél. : 418.650.0997
> > Téléc. : 418.650.9668
> > Courriel : mgaudreault at reference.qc.ca
> > Site Internet : http://www.reference.qc.ca/
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> > Sent: February 29, 2008 5:50 PM
> > To: MailScanner discussion
> > Subject: Re: Queue problem
> >
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> > Maxime Gaudreault 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 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.
> >
> >
> >> I don't understand
> >>
> >> *Maxime Gaudreault*
> >>
> >> Technicien
> >>
> >> _ _
> >>
> >> Référence Systèmes inc.
> >>
> >> Tél. : 418.650.0997
> >>
> >> Téléc. : 418.650.9668
> >>
> >> Courriel : _mgaudreault_ at reference.qc.ca
> >> <mailto:mgaudreault at reference.qc.ca>
> >>
> >> Site Internet : http://www.reference.qc.ca/
> >>
> >> *From:* mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> >> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] *On Behalf Of
> >> *Maxime Gaudreault
> >> *Sent:* February 29, 2008 10:54 AM
> >> *To:* MailScanner discussion
> >> *Subject:* Queue problem
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I have a problem with my anti-spam gateway. The queue is fulling up
> >> very quickly (1600+ mails in queue).
> >>
> >> The server's load average is <1 (0.60 - 0.80) so I suppose this is
> not
> >> a ressource problem.
> >>
> >> Then I have to change the port forwarding directly to my Imail
> server
> >> to let the anti-spam's queue going down.
> >>
> >> I used many tweak to maximize the efficacity of the anti-spam
> >> (mailscanner work directory in ram, dns cache server, increasing
> >> memory). I only got 1 CPU but I suppose this is not the problem
> >> because when the queue is full, the load average is under 1.
> >>
> >> Any idea ?
> >>
> >> PS: Sorry for my bad english
> >>
> >> PPS: Sorry if you received my message twice
> >>
> >> *Maxime Gaudreault*
> >>
> >> Technicien
> >>
> >> _ _
> >>
> >> Référence Systèmes inc.
> >>
> >> Tél. : 418.650.0997
> >>
> >> Téléc. : 418.650.9668
> >>
> >> Courriel : _mgaudreault_ at reference.qc.ca
> >> <mailto:mgaudreault at reference.qc.ca>
> >>
> >> Site Internet : http://www.reference.qc.ca/
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Jules
> >
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