Matt wrote: >>> Any other ideas? >> >> One thought is to thwart the common practice of spammers that target >> only the secondary MX.
> That's actually a good idea :) I'll consider that! But all of our MX > records are the same priority anyway, but adding a fake secondary might > actually be pretty neat (since spammers mght skip "relay1" and "relay2" > and go right for the priority 20 server which wont exist. I'm not sure if it would be effective or not if relay1 and relay2 do round robin. I just don't know. > In a previous email, you guys asked me to send a debug from a message. > Here it is. It seems the "timing" you were looking for is 7566 ms. Our > queue on these servers gets really backed up during business hours. Most > of the time it is taking about 5 minutes now for a message to be processed > from the queue. > We do have IDE drives, but the only I/O I notice is the writing to the log > file (/var/log/maillog). I do not have /var/amavis/tmp in a RAM drive, > because I monitored that directory and there didn't seem to be too much > traffic. Am I missing something? Would moving that dir to memory really > help improve I/O? You have to be very careful, if tmpfs fills up, amavisd-new processes croak. I'm not sure it's worth it primarily due to this fact. Do your homework if you try this. > Wow, I was wrong. > /var/amavis/tmp does get a crap load of traffic :) > I'll look into putting this into memory. Then you may need a crap load of memory! How many amavis* directories are there? A large number may indicate a problem. > Anyway, here is the output: lookup_ldap: 3861 (51%) (4 seconds) I personally don't use LDAP so I have no idea how to improve this, or if this is as good as it gets. But this is obviously where amavisd-new spends half its time. SA check: 3215 (42%) (3 seconds - looks OK) Just my 0.02 Gary V ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
