Mailscanner performance monitoring ?

[Phil Barnett]

I do quite a few things for processing speed. One of the important ones is
to create a ramdisk where you unpack your mail for scanning. My recipe is
in the following document. It has been updated over the years since I
created it in 2007.

http://leap-cf.org/presentations/MailScanner/MailScanner.odt


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Alex Neuman <alex at vidadigital.com.pa> wrote:

> An OT recommendation: stick with RH or CentOS instead of Fedora. While
> Fedora's "bleeding edge" approach works great on the desktop, CentOS
> might be a better fit since it uses older, more stable (but with
> security patched backported) components; of course, YMMV.
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com> wrote:
> > local caching DNS server
> > only run a couple of RBL's (no need to run lots)
> > drop unknown recipients on the incoming MTA
> >
> > --
> > Martin Hepworth, CISSP
> > Oxford, UK
> >
> >
> > On 1 May 2013 15:31, Arjan Melein <Amelein at dantumadiel.eu> wrote:
> >>
> >> We're currently getting flooded by spam and every so often our
> mailscanner
> >> is having trouble seems to have trouble keeping up causing our inbound
> queue
> >> to hit 3000+ messages and I am trying to figure out where the processing
> >> time is going.
> >> I am getting the impression *something* is causing a delay, I am unsure
> as
> >> to what but I'm thinking in the way of RBL's or DNS...
> >>
> >> The server is a quadcore with 20 MS threads and it can churn through
> 10-30
> >> average mails per second depending on their size so either e-mails are
> being
> >> delivered faster then they can be scanned or there is indeed a delay
> >> somewhere.
> >>
> >> Its a 'new' install (few months old) on FC18. I've seen it clear the
> 3000
> >> message queue in 5 - 10 minutes after manually stopping and starting
> >> mailscanner.
> >>
> >> Any ideas anyone ?
> >>
> >> -
> >> Arjan
> >>
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