Found the culprit. It was the ClamAV slowing down the flow of email. It was spiking my cpu 100%. THis system has not been touched for about a month. I wonder why that would start? Any ideas?<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Julian Field</b> <<a href="mailto:MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk">MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br><br><br>Lucio Montenegro wrote:<br>> Hello Everyone,
<br>> I currently have the current setup:<br>><br>> Fedora Core 5<br>> MailScanner<br>> Spamassassin<br>> ClamAV<br>><br>> All Messages are forwarded to my internal exchange server. I noticed<br>> that all messages are taking at least 250 seconds or more to process:
<br>><br>> Jun 24 09:57:20 localhost MailScanner[9392]: Batch (1 message)<br>> processed in 277.04 seconds<br>> Jun 24 09:57:36 localhost MailScanner[9155]: Batch (1 message)<br>> processed in 273.49 seconds
<br>> Jun 24 09:57:46 localhost MailScanner[9160]: Batch (1 message)<br>> processed in 269.35 seconds<br>><br>> This all started after a couple of weeks when I created a cron job to<br>> learn spam every 8 hours:
<br>><br>> user --showdots --mbox --spam /var/mail/usermailbox<br>><br>> I since then disabled the cron job and now I want to lower the process<br>> time. Your help is appreciated.<br>What timeouts do you have set in
MailScanner.conf?<br>What else does your maillog say for each of these batches?<br><br>Jules<br><br>- --<br>Julian Field MEng CITP<br><a href="http://www.MailScanner.info">www.MailScanner.info</a><br>Buy the MailScanner book at
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