Long delay and no "Spam Checks completed in xxx seconds"

[Martin.Hepworth]

Ugo

Nuke the sa-cache?? Has been know the get itself knotted up..

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Ugo Bellavance
> Sent: 23 October 2008 11:05
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Long delay and no "Spam Checks completed in xxx seconds"
>
> Hi,
>
> 	Symptom: Batch took 612s to process (30 messages).
> This system usually processes that in around 200s.  This
> batch should have been processed in less than 20s because all
> of the messages hit the SA cache.  Virus scanning took about 7 secs.
>
> 	Observation: There is a 10-minute gap between the log
> of the last log entry of spam checks and the start of virus
> checks.  Also, there is no log entry saying "Spam Checks
> completed in xxx seconds".
>
> Other relevant log entries:
>
> Oct 22 17:23:37 server MailScanner[9558]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> Oct 22 17:23:45 server MailScanner[9558]: Virus Scanning completed at
> 2945 bytes per second
> Oct 22 17:23:46 server MailScanner[9558]: Uninfected:
> Delivered 30 messages Oct 22 17:23:46 server
> MailScanner[9558]: Batch completed at 2943 bytes per second
> (1803120 / 612) Oct 22 17:23:46 server MailScanner[9558]:
> Batch (30 messages) processed in 612.64 seconds
>
> Have a look at the speed of virus scanning.  It took 8
> seconds to be done, but if you compute 2945 1803120 / 2945,
> you also get 612s.
>
> This is CentOS release 4.7 (Final)
> This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.71.10
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.26    Archive::Zip
> 0.21    bignum
> 1.03    Carp
> 2.008   Compress::Zlib
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 2.121   Data::Dumper
> 2.27    Date::Parse
> 1.00    DirHandle
> 1.05    Fcntl
> 2.73    File::Basename
> 2.08    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 1.06    File::Path
> 0.20    File::Temp
> 0.92    Filesys::Df
> 1.35    HTML::Entities
> 3.56    HTML::Parser
> 2.37    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.23    IO
> 1.14    IO::File
> 1.13    IO::Pipe
> 2.02    Mail::Header
> 1.86    Math::BigInt
> 0.19    Math::BigRat
> 3.05    MIME::Base64
> 5.425   MIME::Decoder
> 5.425   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.425   MIME::Head
> 5.425   MIME::Parser
> 3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.425   MIME::Tools
> 0.11    Net::CIDR
> 1.25    Net::IP
> 0.16    OLE::Storage_Lite
> 1.04    Pod::Escapes
> 3.05    Pod::Simple
> 1.08    POSIX
> 1.14    Scalar::Util
> 1.77    Socket
> 2.13    Storable
> 1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
> 0.18    Sys::Syslog
> missing Test::Pod
> 0.7     Test::Simple
> 1.9711  Time::HiRes
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
> 1.36    Archive::Tar
> 0.21    bignum
> missing Business::ISBN
> missing Business::ISBN::Data
> missing Data::Dump
> 1.809   DB_File
> 1.14    DBD::SQLite
> 1.601   DBI
> 1.08    Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.33    Digest::MD5
> 2.11    Digest::SHA1
> 1.01    Encode::Detect
> 0.17015 Error
> 0.24    ExtUtils::CBuilder
> 2.19    ExtUtils::ParseXS
> 2.36    Getopt::Long
> 0.44    Inline
> 1.08    IO::String
> 1.09    IO::Zlib
> 2.25    IP::Country
> missing Mail::ClamAV
> 3.002005        Mail::SpamAssassin
> v2.006  Mail::SPF
> 1.999001        Mail::SPF::Query
> 0.2808  Module::Build
> 0.20    Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.63    Net::DNS
> missing Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable
> 0.34    Net::LDAP
>   4.007  NetAddr::IP
> 1.94    Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> 2.42    Test::Harness
> 1.22    Test::Manifest
> 1.95    Text::Balanced
> 1.30    URI
> 0.74    version
> missing YAML
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ugo
>
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