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[Martin Hepworth]

2009/1/26 Simon Jones <simonmjones at gmail.com>:
> 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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Sounds like DNS issues...check the setup is OK and dns requests are
handles correctly.

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Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK