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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi i am busy testing what load my mailscanner box
can handle.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i am running an intel 2.4Ghz with 1GB RAM and a
normal SATA HDD drive using Postfix as MTA all RBL's are in SA al running on
Centos 5.2</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i am using smtp-source to test sending 2000
messages at once and i not getting the results i was hoping for it, after 24 min
of running there are still 1300 messages in the queue.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>is the normal or bad, postfix is a fast mta, i also
noticed that mailscanner scans messages in batches of 30, and it really takes a
long time for the 30 messages to be placed back in the queue.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>vmstat</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>procs -----------memory---------- ---swap--
-----io---- --system-- -----cpu------<BR> r b
swpd free buff cache si
so bi bo in cs us sy
id wa st<BR> 0 0 187204 43488 19036
65140 1 1
7 23 73 7 5 0
94 0 0<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>again am i asking too much from the hardware or is
there something i can do to increase performance? '</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i am using a caching dns server and added
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>none
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
tmpfs defaults 0
0<BR> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in fstab</DIV></FONT><BR>
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