Mqueue.in just keeps growing...

[Martin.Hepworth]

Max

Anything obvious in these messages? ( unknown recipients, joe-job bounces)???

Is this the same amount of messages you were processing before?

Have you tried turnin all the RBL's off in SA and just leaving a couple of known working ones on. (nb spamhaus will put you on their 'greylist' is you query them too much as part of their usage policy), http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html. So unless you've got a pay for feed I suggest you remove them from your setup given your message load.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Max Kipness
> Sent: 09 October 2008 07:59
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Mqueue.in just keeps growing...
>
> >How's your caching dns performance? Have you updated spamassassin?
>
> >What additional rules or plugins are you running? --
>
>
>
> Well I followed a lot of the suggestions for increasing
> performance, and although MailScanner is working a little
> better, it still cannot keep up. DNS performance is quick. I
> do not have the latest spamassassin version, but based on the
> fact that most spam is being caught by Sendmail now (as
> described below), I wouldn't think that is the problem.
>
>
>
> I added the greeting delay to sendmail, am now checking
> Spamcop and XBL at Sendmail level, and although tons of spam
> is now being caught before getting to MailScanner, my
> mqueue.in is at 30k, incoming is at a constant 180 and now
> mqueue is hovering around 2k. Mail is coming through but way
> too slow. Also, cpu is just pegged at 100% with several
> MailScanner processes, Sendmail processes, and kblockd/0 and
> kblockd/1 splitting up all cpu. I'm starting to wonder if
> after the reboot something has degraded my disk performance
> and now there isn't enough cpu for MailScanner to handle the
> number of messages coming in?
>
>
>
> I may have to resort to setting up MailScanner on another
> system at this point.
>
>
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions, and if anyone has any other
> ideas, please let me know.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Max
>
>




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