Sahil, > I ran (for the first time) amavisd-nanny which keeps scrolling thusly: > > PID 88625: 0:00:54 .........:.........:.........:..... > PID 88626: 0:01:21 .........:.........:.........:..... > > PID 88625: 0:00:56 .........:.........:.........:..... > PID 88626: 0:01:23 .........:.........:.........:..... > > PID 88625: 0:00:58 .........:.........:.........:..... > PID 88626: 0:01:25 .........:.........:.........:..... > > PID 88625: 0:01:00 .........:.........:.........:..... > PID 88626: 0:01:27 .........:.........:.........:..... > > I see two directories in /var/amavis/tmp: > > bulwark# ls -l /var/amavis/tmp/ > total 6 > drwxr-x--- 3 vscan vscan 512 Apr 1 19:39 > amavis-20080401T193951-88625 > drwxr-x--- 3 vscan vscan 512 Apr 1 19:51 > amavis-20080401T195156-88626 > -rw-r----- 1 vscan vscan 1416 Apr 1 19:56 razor-agent.log > > No matter how many emails I see go through, there are always two files. Is > this normal?
Yes, this is normal. For every amavisd child process there is one dedicated directory, one permanently open file 'email.txt' within and a subdirectory 'parts'. It saves creating/deleting two directies and a temporary file with every message checking. Depending on a file system in use, this may or may not be a significant saving (it was substantial on older non-journalled or non-snapshot file systems). > Finally, on the postfix mailing list, someone made reference to simply > adding amavisd_ram=100M to one's /etc/rc.conf to get amavisd-new to use ram > disk. Yes, this suffices on FreeBSD systems if you installed amavisd-new from ports. > Is that incomplete? Doesn't one need to do something like this?: > http://www.arschkrebs.de/postfix/amavisd_tmpfs.shtml For other systems you'd need to do more steps. In my view it is not worth it. Doesn't save much (specially on a journalled/snapshot-based fs), and increases a risk that you will exceed a limited size of a mem-based file system. Adjusting the number of child process is the main tuning knob ($max_servers in amavisd.conf, and maxproc in master.cf or amavisfeed_destination_concurrency_limit in main.cf). For a modern host something between 15 and 40 is the useful range when mail rate is high. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ 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/
