Andy, > I saw a suggestion from Matt Reimer back in April regarding ditching db41 > for db42 to resolve a strange performance issue with Amavisd on FreeBSD 8. > > Yeah. That was it. I ditched db41 for db42 and wow what a difference.
Thanks for a thorough investigation and a resolution! > That box is now doing over 16k messages per hour (was maxing around 6k > before), has no problem with 25 max_servers (several of those sit idle so > I wonder just how high I could push the messages per hour if I configured > the load balancing to send that much of a load to this box)....AND this is > while I'm doing a make buildworld. Nice. > > InMsgs 2044 16774/h 100.0 % (InMsgs) > TimeElapsedDecoding 412 s 0.196 s/msg (InMsgs) > TimeElapsedPenPals 28 s 0.013 s/msg (InMsgs) > TimeElapsedReceiving 378 s 0.180 s/msg (InMsgs) > TimeElapsedSending 146 s 0.069 s/msg (InMsgs) > TimeElapsedSpamCheck 4372 s 2.079 s/msg (InMsgs) > TimeElapsedTotal 6815 s 3.241 s/msg (InMsgs) > TimeElapsedVirusCheck 690 s 0.328 s/msg (InMsgs) > > Matt Reimer you rock. > Marc, perhaps this needs to be mentioned in the release notes or > something? It definitely solved a huge problem that I've been chasing all > day now. Not sure that it belongs to release notes, but I've added a note to the amavisd web page, near other reasons for staying away from dbd41 and older. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user Please visit http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ regularly For administrativa requests please send email to rainer at openantivirus dot org