Hi Glenn,<br><br><b><i>Glenn Steen <glenn.steen@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On 28/11/2007, Michael Mansour <micoots@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> Glenn Steen <glenn.steen@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> On 27/11/2007, Israel Garcia wrote:<br>> > On Nov 27, 2007 4:36 PM, Glenn Steen wrote:<br>> ><br>> > ><br>> > > On 27/11/2007, Israel Garcia wrote:<br>><br>> > > > On Nov 27, 2007 4:01 PM, UxBoD wrote:<br>> > > ><br>> > > > > So when disabling RBLs the problem disappears.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > No, the problem disapear when I turn off spamassassin completily in<br>> > > > mailscanner config file. Sometimes I enable Spamassassin check but<br>> > disable<br>> > > > razor2, DCC and pyzor in spam.assassin.prefs.conf and it work
better..<br>> > BUT,<br>> > > > if I fully enalbe spamassassin with DCC, razor2 and pyzor the load<br>> > average<br>> > > > begins to increase and thousands of mails begins comes to HOLD folder<br>> ..<br>> > Do<br>> > > > you think it's time to split the load in two servers? I mean something<br>> > like<br>> > > > this:<br>> > > > Router<br>> > > > NAT rules to SMTP farm serves.<br>> > > > I<br>> > > > I<br>> > > > ______________________________<br>> > > > I I<br>> > > > Server2 SMTP Server1 SMTP<br>> > > > Mailscanner/sa Mailscanner/sa<br>> > ><br>> > > If the bottleneck is network-related/lookups.... this will buy you<br>> > > nothing, unfortunately.<br>> > I know, but how am I sure this is the cause of my problem?<br>> ><br>> :-) .... when you remove some
load and the problem goes away:-):-).<br>> How much memory/swap is used when these messages get queued and not<br>> processed?<br>><br>> I'm currently trouble-shooting a problem which does the same thing and have<br>> tracked it down to the memory running out ie. mostly swap being used while<br>> CPU's aren't (load average goes to 12 and 13 because of the heavy swap<br>> usage).<br>><br>> I'm organising more memory for the server at the moment, which should<br>> resolve the issue.<br>><br>> Regards,<br>><br>> Michael.<br><br>Good point. On the other hand, you could also look at a) Why does the<br>memory run out, and b) what can you do about it.<br></glenn.steen@gmail.com></micoots@yahoo.com></blockquote>I run a perl script each morning which goes through my previous days maillog and counts all bandwidth used per domain for the previous day, then generates graphs out of that data.<br><br>This process isn't something I'd like to get
rid of which is why I want it to run and if I need to add more memory to preserve it's process then I should.<micoots@yahoo.com><glenn.steen@gmail.com></glenn.steen@gmail.com></micoots@yahoo.com><br><micoots@yahoo.com><glenn.steen@gmail.com></glenn.steen@gmail.com></micoots@yahoo.com><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><micoots@yahoo.com><glenn.steen@gmail.com>If your MailScanner children eat up too much, one thing could be to<br>lower the amount of children. If the childrens workers hang around<br>waiting for slow responses, you might need look more closely on why<br></glenn.steen@gmail.com></micoots@yahoo.com></blockquote>Since you sent that email, I lowed the children to two and watch the morning run, instead of receiving 300 queued messages I only got a maximum of 15, and not delayed by 2 hours for delivery but by only 15
minutes.<br><br><micoots@yahoo.com><glenn.steen@gmail.com></glenn.steen@gmail.com></micoots@yahoo.com>This is a good "work around" for now and as other mail servers handle the inbound workload too it's a good solution until the box gets a little more ram into it, so thanks for that suggestion.<br><micoots@yahoo.com><glenn.steen@gmail.com></glenn.steen@gmail.com></micoots@yahoo.com><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><micoots@yahoo.com><glenn.steen@gmail.com>that is... and correct that (in this case more RAM could be a very<br>good aid, but still a band.aid where an amputation would be<br>better;-):-).<br><br>Anyway, I'm sure you know where to look, what to do:).<br></glenn.steen@gmail.com></micoots@yahoo.com></blockquote>Thanks for your suggestions Glenn, you're consistently a helpful individual :) .. I just wish now I could work out the movie file blocking issue (not blocking I mean) with the
latest MailScanner.<br><br>Michael.<micoots@yahoo.com><glenn.steen@gmail.com></glenn.steen@gmail.com></micoots@yahoo.com><br><micoots@yahoo.com><glenn.steen@gmail.com></glenn.steen@gmail.com></micoots@yahoo.com><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><micoots@yahoo.com><glenn.steen@gmail.com>Cheers<br>-- <br>-- Glenn<br>email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com<br>work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se<br>-- <br>MailScanner mailing list<br>mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info<br>http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner<br><br>Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting<br><br>Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website! <br></glenn.steen@gmail.com></micoots@yahoo.com></blockquote><br><p> 
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