Paul wrote:
> Eric Carr wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> my ASSP box is having trouble handling its current load. The cpu is maxed
>> out most of the time, and response times are slow.
>> I've tried disabling clam, reducing the max number of SMTP sessions, and a
>> few other basics, however the server is in production, and I don't want to
>> mess around too much.
>>
>> Is the any kind of logging that can be enabled to trace exactly what
>> components/tests are responsible for the load and delays? I'd like to
>> analyze a given SMTP session, and see how much cpu load / time usage each
>> regex/dnsbl-lookup/etc accounts for..
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>
> My solution to this (only tried last week hence no post yet) was to
> disable on-access scanning of the ClamAV directory by the onboard AV. As
> we are a small outfit and the mail server has multiple roles there is
> 24x7 scanning of all files written to disk. Since I excluded the ClamAV
> directory from scanning I have had no alerts for high CPU usage.
> 
> Your situation may be different so your mileage may vary.

Exclude the ASSP directory while you're at it.

Mail servers should 99.9% of the time NOT have on-access virus scanning.

Kevin

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