Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread Eric \Shubes\
Michael Amster wrote: Hi: I run a relatively lightly loaded qmailtoaster - pretty current. I have noticed that after a while the qmail-smtpd process seems to get bogged down accepting incoming messages. I run rbl and my blacklists file is: -r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org -r bl.spamcop.net -r

RE: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread jason p
I had been experiencing a similar problem, SMTP sessions time out when trying to send mail through my server. I narrowed the problems down to the RBL's as well. I am currently running only the following: -r relays.ordb.org -r opm.blitzed.org -r cbl.abuseat.org. Adding additional blacklists will

Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Amster
Eric Shubes wrote: Michael Amster wrote: Hi: I run a relatively lightly loaded qmailtoaster - pretty current. I have noticed that after a while the qmail-smtpd process seems to get bogged down accepting incoming messages. I run rbl and my blacklists file is: -r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org -r

Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Amster
DNS is correct - running a local djbdns and it is screaming. I have heard such good things about sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org that I wanted to keep it. Did you strike it from your list or just not consider it? jason p wrote: I had been experiencing a similar problem, SMTP sessions time out when

Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread Eric \Shubes\
Michael Amster wrote: Eric Shubes wrote: Michael Amster wrote: Hi: I run a relatively lightly loaded qmailtoaster - pretty current. I have noticed that after a while the qmail-smtpd process seems to get bogged down accepting incoming messages. I run rbl and my blacklists file is:

Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread Eric \Shubes\
Here's what I'm running, FWIW: -r relays.ordb.org -r dnsbl.antispam.or.id -r opm.blitzed.org -r list.dsbl.org -r cbl.abuseat.org -r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org Not having a problem on a high volume server with this. Michael Amster wrote: DNS is correct - running a local djbdns and it is screaming. I

Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Amster
Eric Shubes wrote: Michael Amster wrote: Eric Shubes wrote: Michael Amster wrote: Hi: I run a relatively lightly loaded qmailtoaster - pretty current. I have noticed that after a while the qmail-smtpd process seems to get bogged down accepting incoming messages. I run

Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Amster
Eric Shubes wrote: Michael Amster wrote: Eric Shubes wrote: Michael Amster wrote: Hi: I run a relatively lightly loaded qmailtoaster - pretty current. I have noticed that after a while the qmail-smtpd process seems to get bogged down accepting incoming messages. I run

RE: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread jason p
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 2:58 PM To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster DNS is correct - running a local djbdns and it is screaming. I have heard such good things about sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org that I wanted

Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread Jake Vickers
jason p wrote: I removed sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org a few weeks ago when their legal troubles started; it was causing me SMTP timeout problems back then. I tried putting it back once about a week ago, and as soon as I did my SMTP connections started taking forever. I also removed the others because

Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread Eric \Shubes\
Jake Vickers wrote: jason p wrote: I removed sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org a few weeks ago when their legal troubles started; it was causing me SMTP timeout problems back then. I tried putting it back once about a week ago, and as soon as I did my SMTP connections started taking forever. I also

Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Amster
I performed an experiment to see what happens - I removed all the RBLs and saw that the response decayed from instant response after a qmailctl restart to about 15s after about 1hr. of running. It looks like the RBLs have no impact on my response time. This points to bayes expiration as an

Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow/hung smtpd with Qmailtoaster

2006-10-30 Thread Eric \Shubes\
Michael Amster wrote: I performed an experiment to see what happens - I removed all the RBLs and saw that the response decayed from instant response after a qmailctl restart to about 15s after about 1hr. of running. It looks like the RBLs have no impact on my response time. This points to