[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As the part-time admin of an MTA I would appreciate some advice on what > values to use for Exim's parameters to stop throughput reducing to a > trickle. [snip] > About 99% of all our e-mails arrive from two company edge servers and > total received is about 20,000 e-mails per day with only around 1,000 of > genuine e-mails and the rest being SPAM. [snip] > Arriving in this morning I issued the top command and it showed 13 > exim-4.63-4 processes, all sleeping, and only 0.4% user cpu usage (this > is usually more than 50%). [snip]
Do you have many many messages in your queue (exim -bpc)? Are you trying to bounce those 20000 spam emails (exim -bp)? Can you verify in the log file that new queue runners are being spawned? What does exiwhat tell you those processes are doing? Is clamd/spamd still running and responding to a PING on the socket? -- The Exim Manual http://www.exim.org/docs.html http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/index.html -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
