David Milholen wrote: > > > Eric Shubert wrote: >> t...@uncon.org wrote: >> >>> Quoting Eric Shubert <e...@shubes.net>: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I think this is more complicated than it needs to be, and not any more >>>> efficient than the qtp-prune-graylist script >>>> (http://qtp.qmailtoaster.com/trac/browser/bin/qtp-prune-graylist). The >>>> script is admittedly a little i/o intensive, but a) some of it is >>>> typically cached, and b) it's not all that slow. Besides which, what's >>>> the problem? It's typically run once a day, and I don't see it impacting >>>> the performance of anything else. >>>> >>> Depends on the scale of your mail server. See this entry from the ChangeLog: >>> >>> NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE: Changed the graylist system to create a deeper >>> directory structure by creating folders for the senders' domain >>> names. This >>> will allow busy servers to use graylisting even when the number of >>> sender >>> addresses could exceed the number of entries allowed in a folder. >>> Thanks >>> to Trog for suggesting this one. >>> >>> My mail servers graylisting was hitting filesystem limits in less than >>> 24 hours. >>> >> >> Which limit(s) of which filesystem? >> >> >>> The qtp-prune-graylist script would take much longer than a >>> day to run on my mail server. >>> >> >> Did you run it? >> In 'silent' mode? >> >> The first large server it ran on, it processed over 1.1M entries. I >> don't recall the run time, but I believe it was less than an hour. This >> was on a filesystem that had run out of inodes. >> >> >>> I'd basically have to run it >>> continuously on my server - it would certainly impact performance. >>> >> >> How many graylist entries do you have? >> >> > Eric, > Here are those results after using the script.. It was still running > after 10pm but it got the job done it looks like. > qtp-prune-graylist processing graylist tree at /var/spamdyke/graylist ... > qtp-prune-graylist pruning entries older than 1209600 seconds ... > qtp-prune-graylist processing domain hhinc.net ... > qtp-prune-graylist hhinc.net - 80118 entries found > qtp-prune-graylist hhinc.net - 75815 entries removed > qtp-prune-graylist hhinc.net - 56689 empty directories removed > qtp-prune-graylist hhinc.net - 4314 graylisting entries remain > qtp-prune-graylist processing domain test.com ... > qtp-prune-graylist test.com - 1 entries found > qtp-prune-graylist test.com - 1 entries removed > qtp-prune-graylist test.com - 1 empty directories removed > qtp-prune-graylist test.com - 0 graylisting entries remain > qtp-prune-graylist processing domain wletc.com ... > qtp-prune-graylist wletc.com - 1164192 entries found > qtp-prune-graylist wletc.com - 1127660 entries removed > qtp-prune-graylist wletc.com - 439585 empty directories removed > qtp-prune-graylist wletc.com - 37315 graylisting entries remain > qtp-prune-graylist processing domain localhost ... > qtp-prune-graylist localhost - 0 entries found > qtp-prune-graylist localhost - 0 entries removed > qtp-prune-graylist localhost - 0 empty directories removed > qtp-prune-graylist localhost - 0 graylisting entries remain > qtp-prune-graylist total - 4 domains processed > qtp-prune-graylist total - 1244311 entries found > qtp-prune-graylist total - 1203476 entries removed > qtp-prune-graylist total - 496275 empty directories removed > qtp-prune-graylist total - 41629 graylisting entries remain > > The wletc domain is my largest domain. > > I am having trouble with a customer who was using smtp-auth to send a > 1MB attachment and it is timing out. Typically only takes a few > seconds and its done but this is the first I have seen this. > We are sending someone to check it out from his end to see whats up. > Have any ideas on where I should check to see why its timing out. > Sometimes they will send but its taking a long time around 8mins or more. > > --Dave > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interesting numbers, Dave. Thanks for sharing. How long does the script take to run now that the initial pruning is done? -- -Eric 'shubes' _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
