WARNING: Ignoring deprecated option --unzip

Simon Jones simonmjones at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 17:34:52 GMT 2009


2009/1/26 Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
>
>
> On 26/1/09 17:06, Simon Jones wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jason,
>> nope not swapping - they have 8gb ram and 15k rpm sas drives
>>
>> free -m
>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>> Mem:          3948       2624       1324          0        206        444
>> -/+ buffers/cache:       1973       1975
>> Swap:         1983          0       1983
>>
>> its really strange, I've commented out all the lists in
>> spam.lists.conf and disabled bayes in spam.assassin.prefs.conf dropped
>> the max children to 20 from 40 (which its been happy with for months)
>> but its still stacking mail in the hold queue - I just checked again
>> tail -f /var/log/maillog | grep Found and it seems to have just
>> shifted 500+ messages in one big lump!  hold is now clear... what
>> the....
>>
>
> 20 children, each with 30 messages, will all clear at nearly the same time
> if one bit of the processing is taking most of the time. 20x30=600 messages.
>
> Jules
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Thanks Julian,

its really strange that's all, the system is easily managing to keep
up now but telnet to 25 is still really slow to respond, like 5 - 10
seconds or it'll time out completely.  I noticed my mailscanner sql db
is getting a bit fat so maybe this is causing some problem...


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