Question on reducing load on MailScanner machine

[Scott Silva]

on 6-25-2009 11:37 AM Christopher Fisk spake the following:
> I saw a similar post in the archives recently, but the discussion didn't go very far.
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> http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-June/092018.html
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> I'd like to expand the question a bit.
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> Lets assume I have a single server handling MailScanner (& SA & ClamAV) and the postfix/courier servers.
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> The MailScanner queue is reaching 300+ at times, giving a short delay between the server receiving the message and MailScanner scanning it.
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> If I were to NFS/SMB mount both the MailScanner install directory and the hold queue directory from another machine and startup another MailScanner process, will I run into issues where both MailScanners are trying to scan the same messages and cause problems?  Or would MailScanner be smart enough to know that another MailScanner process is scanning a given message?
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> This is on Linux 2.6 and ext3.  Filesystems and kernel versions can be changed as needed.
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> I have a few extra servers I can quickly put in place and would rather do that than purchasing an entire new server for this.
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> The MailScanner book doesn't have any information on this type of configuration unfortunately.
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> Thanks!
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> 
> Christopher Fisk
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I doubt if postfix would like this.

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