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

R Wahyudi rwahyudi at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 21:49:25 GMT 2008


Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
>     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.
>
>
Ugo,

I found that the most common cause of  'slowness' is network bound & 
disk bound.

So try turning off all DNS/razor/pyzor/surbl  check and see if it make 
any difference.
Also, you might try to disable the bayes and see if it improve the 
performance.


Regards,
Rianto Wahyudi






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