>> Suggestions? > > Yes, you should be running much more than 2 instances of amavisd.
was running 6, upped that to 10 about 1/2 ago. no change. sockstat -4 | egrep vscan vscan perl 36980 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36979 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36978 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36977 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36976 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36975 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36974 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36973 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36972 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36971 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36919 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* ps aux | egrep -i vscan vscan 36919 0.0 6.5 71688 66624 ?? Ss 5:09PM 0:21.34 amavisd (master) (perl) vscan 36971 0.0 6.5 72320 66848 ?? I 5:10PM 0:00.10 amavisd (ch1-avail) (perl) vscan 36972 0.0 6.5 72320 66848 ?? I 5:10PM 0:00.09 amavisd (ch1-avail) (perl) vscan 36973 0.0 6.5 72320 66816 ?? I 5:10PM 0:00.04 amavisd (virgin child) (perl) vscan 36974 0.0 6.5 72320 66816 ?? I 5:10PM 0:00.04 amavisd (virgin child) (perl) vscan 36975 0.0 6.5 72320 66816 ?? I 5:10PM 0:00.04 amavisd (virgin child) (perl) vscan 36976 0.0 6.5 72320 66816 ?? I 5:10PM 0:00.04 amavisd (virgin child) (perl) vscan 36977 0.0 6.5 72320 66816 ?? I 5:10PM 0:00.04 amavisd (virgin child) (perl) vscan 36978 0.0 6.5 72320 66816 ?? I 5:10PM 0:00.04 amavisd (virgin child) (perl) vscan 36979 0.0 6.5 72320 66816 ?? I 5:10PM 0:00.04 amavisd (virgin child) (perl) vscan 36980 0.0 6.5 72320 66816 ?? I 5:10PM 0:00.04 amavisd (virgin child) (perl) This is not a busy machine at the amavis/spamd/clamav level, until about 17:00 hours: egrep -ic '(passed clean|spam-tag|blocked spam)' /var/log/maillog 10043 >Your current 2 instances virtually guarantee that mail will back up >unnecessarily while SA waits for responses from DNS queries and other >network tests. was not two, was 6, now 10 230 MB RMA inactive or free. > You need more RAM we'll shoot for 2 GB > Try 6 amavisd processes for a start (Scientific Wild Ass Guess), and >adjust up or down from there as necessary. If it starts swapping, drop >the number of processes, of course. Make sure that the Postfix >concurrency setting for injection into amavisd is set to match. local concurrency was 2, upped now to 10. local_destination_concurrency_limit = 10 default_destination_concurrency_limit = 10 but top falls back to showing only 2 vscan/perl after postfix reload jumps it up to 5 or 6 busy. ockstat -4 | egrep vscan vscan perl 37417 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 37267 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 37265 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 37212 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 37198 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 37198 12 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 127.0.0.1:57704 vscan perl 37198 16 udp4 69.51.71.14:18295 69.51.71.14:53 vscan perl 36980 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36979 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36974 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36973 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36972 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscan perl 36972 12 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 127.0.0.1:57710 vscan perl 36972 14 udp4 69.51.71.14:46990 69.51.71.14:53 vscan perl 36919 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* thanks, Len ______________________________________________ IMGate OpenSource Mail Firewall www.IMGate.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
