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color=#0000ff size=2>Which SA are you using?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=068170809-09102008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Have you done an sa-update to update the base
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lang=en-gb><FONT face=Arial size=2>--</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-gb><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Phil Randal</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-gb><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Networks Engineer</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-gb><FONT
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Max
Kipness<BR><B>Sent:</B> 09 October 2008 07:59<BR><B>To:</B> MailScanner
discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Mqueue.in just keeps
growing...<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">>How's your caching dns
performance? Have you updated spamassassin? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">>What additional rules or
plugins are you running? -- <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Well I followed a
lot of the suggestions for increasing performance, and although MailScanner is
working a little better, it still cannot keep up. DNS performance is quick. I do
not have the latest spamassassin version, but based on the fact that most spam
is being caught by Sendmail now (as described below), I wouldn’t think that is
the problem.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">I added the
greeting delay to sendmail, am now checking Spamcop and XBL at Sendmail level,
and although tons of spam is now being caught before getting to MailScanner, my
mqueue.in is at 30k, incoming is at a constant 180 and now mqueue is hovering
around 2k. Mail is coming through but way too slow. Also, cpu is just pegged at
100% with several MailScanner processes, Sendmail processes, and kblockd/0 and
kblockd/1 splitting up all cpu. I’m starting to wonder if after the reboot
something has degraded my disk performance and now there isn’t enough cpu for
MailScanner to handle the number of messages coming in?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">I may have to
resort to setting up MailScanner on another system at this
point.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Thanks for all the
suggestions, and if anyone has any other ideas, please let me
know.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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