On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 1:12 PM -0500 2005-12-08, John Dennis wrote:
>
>>> We're running MM v2.1.4-4, we're experiencing such high usage on
>>> our
>>> dual xeon server when mailman sends to 4000 users that port 25
>>> becomes unresponsive. is there a way to "nice" the mailman
>>> delivery?
>>
>> It sounds like your MTA is inefficient in some manner, is not a huge
>> load for a dual server backed with a high bandwith connection.
>> How many
>> client connections can it simultaneously handle? Any chance
>> you've got
>> DNS delays (especially reverse lookup)?
>
> They could also be doing all sorts of authentication/authorization
> or anti-spam/anti-virus checks on their outgoing mail.
>
> It is clearly stated in the FAQ that this is generally a bad idea
> for outgoing mail from the mailing list, since all that stuff
> should have been checked on the way in.
Thanks for all those that responded. After thinking about this for a
bit, we realized that we were using a content-filter in postfix to
divert all incoming port 25 to a barracuda spam appliance. This was
then coming back in 10027 for delivery.
To further amplify the problem, /home is NFS mounted... which means,
lots of network IO.
Here are the changes we made.
mm_cfg.py
SMTP_MAX_RCPT = 2000
SMTPPORT=10027
main.cf
smtpd_recipient_limit = 1000
default_process_limit = 150
Thanks,
Caylan
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