Has anyone seen when the load on a MailScanner server

[Martin Hepworth]

why did they get marked as spam? what rules hit?

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Martin Hepworth, CISSP
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On 28 May 2014 16:11, Philip Parsons <pparsons at techeez.com> wrote:

>  I will look into the queue size setting.  But this does not seem to be
> the issue. What happened is all the emails every single one got marked as
> spam so where not delivered even the white listed ones.
>
> Thank you
> P Parsons
>
> On May 28, 2014, at 7:51 AM, "Jerry Benton" <jerry.benton at mailborder.com>
> wrote:
>
>   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!
>>
>>
>>
>> # If more messages are found in the queue than this, then switch to an
>>
>> # "accelerated" mode of processing messages. This will cause it to stop
>>
>> # scanning messages in strict date order, but in the order it finds them
>>
>> # in the queue. If your queue is bigger than this size a lot of the time,
>>
>> # then some messages could be greatly delayed. So treat this option as
>>
>> # "in emergency only".
>>
>> Max Normal Queue Size = 2000
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> You should look into tmpfs, it has brought down the load on my servers
>> considerably. I use it for a few things now –
>>
>>
>>
>> Incoming Work Dir = /tmpfs
>>
>> SpamAssassin Cache Database File = /tmpfs/SpamAssassin.cache.db
>>
>> SpamAssassin Temporary Dir = /tmpfs
>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe run some gstat commands and check your disks are behaving. If not,
>> then implement tmpfs.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Joolee <mailscanner at joolee.nl> wrote:
>>
>> You probably hit a timeout somewhere. Can you find out from the logs
>> which component times out?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 28 May 2014 03:37, Philip Parsons <pparsons at techeez.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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