Mqueue.in just keeps growing...

[Eduardo Casarero]

2008/10/9 Max Kipness <max at assuredata.com>

>  >How's your caching dns performance? Have you updated spamassassin?
>
> >What additional rules or plugins are you running? --
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> I may have to resort to setting up MailScanner on another system at this
> point.
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> Thanks for all the suggestions, and if anyone has any other ideas, please
> let me know.
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milter-greylisting? milter-ahead? and milter-limit? all this helps a lotttt!
at mta level.

> Thanks,
>
> Max
>
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