jdow wrote: > From: "Derek Catanzaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Matt Kettler wrote: >>> Derek Catanzaro wrote: >>> >>>> I have been having issues with mail backing up on and off over the >>>> past week. I am using MailScanner with SpamAssassin. This morning >>>> for example, I had roughly 500 messages waiting in >>>> /var/spool/mqueue.in and that number had increased to about 2200 in >>>> less than an hour. I then tell MailScanner to stop using SpamAssassin >>>> to try and identify if the problem is with SpamAssassin or not and now >>>> I'm back down to less than 50 messages waiting in the queue in less >>>> than a matter of 10 -15 minutes. So obviously this tells me something >>>> is going on with SpamAssassin. >>>> I ran "spamassassin --lint -D" and I did not notice any problems with >>>> the output other than a dcc timeout. Then again, spamassassin has >>>> always worked well for me so I may be missing something in the output >>>> because I have really never had to troubleshoot this kind of issue >>>> with spamassassin. The recent changes I have made to try and combat >>>> the problem is to disable bayes and I turned off the auto expire for >>>> the bayes tokens just to make sure that wasn't slowing things down. >>>> I am running a local caching name server so I do not believe this to >>>> be a DNS timing issue. I can provide my spamassassin --lint -D output >>>> if anyone is interested. >>>> Fedora Core 1 >>>> SpamAssassin 3.1.0 >>>> MailScanner 4.49.7 >>>> sendmail 8.13.5 >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Derek >>>> >>>> >>> >>> What's your memory load look like? (ie: run the "free" command). >>> >>> Have you recently added any add-on rulesets? >>> >>> Do you have a whole pile of bayes_toks files suffixed with a process ID >>> and "expire" laying around in your bayes directory? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Here are the results of the "free" command with spamassassin running: >> >> total used free shared buffers cached >> Mem: 2068504 2041572 26932 0 242712 >> 60556 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 1738304 330200 >> Swap: 1831912 58544 1773368 >> >> >> Results of "free" command without spamassassin running: >> >> free >> total used free shared buffers cached >> Mem: 2068504 1712204 356300 0 244080 >> 73944 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 1394180 674324 >> Swap: 1831912 7172 1824740 >> > > Subtract at least 1 from the number of children you allow for > spamassassin if you can. (I don't know how mailscanner works.) > Going into swap with SpamAssassin is pure poison.
I'd have to agree.. either that or move SA, or some other part of that box's load off somewhere else. I'd generally consider the numbers you're posting for the box without SA as running as being a "healthy but fully loaded" server.
