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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
