Has anyone seen when the load on a MailScanner server

[Jerry Benton]

See ... my wife was right. I am wrong all the time.

On the same note, I am seeing similar behavior on a lab server I just built
testing out Ubuntu 14.04. I will email results when (if) I have them.


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Richard Mealing <richard at fastnet.co.uk>wrote:

> I’m not sure that is correct, but I may be wrong too!
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> # If more messages are found in the queue than this, then switch to an
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> # "accelerated" mode of processing messages. This will cause it to stop
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> # scanning messages in strict date order, but in the order it finds them
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> # in the queue. If your queue is bigger than this size a lot of the time,
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> # then some messages could be greatly delayed. So treat this option as
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> # "in emergency only".
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> Max Normal Queue Size = 2000
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> So it just stops in the date order and goes for what is top of the queue.
> I set mine to 2000 but it never reaches that now I have made all my changes.
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> You should look into tmpfs, it has brought down the load on my servers
> considerably. I use it for a few things now –
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> Incoming Work Dir = /tmpfs
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> SpamAssassin Cache Database File = /tmpfs/SpamAssassin.cache.db
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> SpamAssassin Temporary Dir = /tmpfs
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> Maybe run some gstat commands and check your disks are behaving. If not,
> then implement tmpfs.
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> Thanks!
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> Rich
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> *From:* mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:
> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] *On Behalf Of *Jerry Benton
> *Sent:* 28 May 2014 08:47
> *To:* MailScanner discussion
> *Subject:* Re: Has anyone seen when the load on a MailScanner server
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> What is happening is your queue is exceeding the threshold set (800 by
> default I think) where MailScanner just starts to process the email without
> scanning it. If your server is getting hit by a surge of email and
> MailScanner cannot keep up, it stops doing checks.
>
> Of course, I could be wrong. Happens a lot.
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> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Joolee <mailscanner at joolee.nl> wrote:
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> You probably hit a timeout somewhere. Can you find out from the logs which
> component times out?
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> On 28 May 2014 03:37, Philip Parsons <pparsons at techeez.com> wrote:
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> Gets too high like 5 or 6 that MailScanner marks all messages as spam ? If
> you have seen this is there something we can change that changes the
> process ?
>
> Thank you
> P Parsons
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