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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Ok,
I have a reasonably large mail server, we process roughly 450000 messages a day
(with this virus we do more) I decided to finally put something infront of it
to quell these viruses, as it Is poorly written and propagates like a mofo. I
installed Redhat 9, used the default sendmail install [modified the .mc file to
like 8 lines, I don't need the rest of the crap] installed the demo
version of sophos (sweep) and MailScanner, it worked great from 1am-10am, when I
got to work around 11 am. I noticed that all of my mailscanner processes said [MailScanner]
<defunct>, so I figured, enh im not really that familiar with how it
works, so I'll assume it was a one-time issue.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> So
I issue the ole /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner stop/start it comes back up,
instantly 5 processes show up as <defunct> so now im confused, so I was
like, lets see whats in my queue. So I hit a ls -la /var/spool/mqueue.in
| wc -l !!42097!!, 42097 messages in mqueue.in, no wonder MailScanner
wont start. Ok. My question is how do I make this thing handle my load.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Here
is the </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>hardware</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Dell
Poweredge 4400</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pentium III 600 /w 512k cache</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> 512
Megabytes of Ram</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Raid
5 scsi-3</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The only purpose for this box is virus scanning. This used
to be my old mail server for my domain, but I have since replaced it because it
couldn't handle the load, I assumed however that this box would be able
to handle the MailScanner load, since it doesn't have to write mail to
people's mailboxes.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Any advice is great, I really like the idea of this product,
and I really want it to work for us.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>-</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Drew Weaver</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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