HI, Justin. Which setting do you have enabled on SA? (assuming you check spam against SpamAssassin). Try disabling RBL checks, Pyzor, Razor, DCC, etc. Maybe a stalled communication with one of those services is sluggishing down the amavis instance...
Could you post over one of your servers the problematic message? Peace, Luis 2007/8/29, Justin Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > At 03:29 PM 8/24/2007, Justin Kim wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > > >I have installed and using amavisd-new for about 1 year now. > > >It is been great since the installation. > > >But I noticed sometimes that Amavis is having hiccups and during > > the hiccups > > >the email delivery is delayed. > > >Postfix is accepting lot of messages and it defers couple of thousands > > >messages during this amavis hiccup time. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > What do you mean by hiccup? Is amavisd-new unable to accept > > connections from postfix? Does amavisd-new stop running and must be > > restarted? Is amavisd-new taking an unreasonably long time to > > process messages at times? Something else? Hiccup is not very > > descriptive for trouble shooting. > > > > Top output is not very useful here. Show logs. amavisd-nanny and/or > > amavisd-agent might also provide useful information, but the logs are > > the place to start. > > > > > > -- > > Noel Jones > > > > > > Hi again, > > After I got Noel's email, I went to do my homework analyzing malilog, > googling, etc. > I couldn't get the answer but I found something. > When I meant hiccups from the previous post, > I meant one amavisd process stall or one amavisd is trying to do its job but > somehow it got stuck with one message (spam message). > Although I have 10 more amavisd instances, this one process that is stuck > with one message is stopping other instances to work properly. > I found this by looking at the top info and went into the /var/amavis/tmp/ > folder. > > ========================================================================== > top - 15:43:37 up 25 days, 15:11, 2 users, load average: 1.38, 2.15, 2.06 > Tasks: 357 total, 2 running, 355 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 20.2% us, 4.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 72.3% id, 2.5% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.2% si > Mem: 8164752k total, 8110816k used, 53936k free, 749420k buffers > Swap: 2031608k total, 160k used, 2031448k free, 4290808k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 29095 amavis 16 0 181m 73m 3320 R 60 0.9 0:01.95 amavisd > (ch1-29095-01-3) > ========================================================================== > > In my /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20070829T152337-29095/ , > there are email.txt file and part/ folder. > And I looked into email.txt and the message was a spam message. > So that was stuck about 5 mins in the /var/amavis/tmp/ folder. > And then it is gone. I do not know whether that is sent to the destination > or not. > > Can someone help me at this point? > Does my finding mean anything? > > Thank you in advance, > > Justin > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- ------------------------------------------------- GNU-GPL: "May The Source Be With You... Linux Registered User #448382. When I grow up, I wanna be like Theo... ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ 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/
