>> First, thank you for your help.
>>
>> I often encounter performance problems with postfix and mailing-list.
>> I have a relay mail postfix filtering mail traffic for about 12 000
>> mailboxes. Mailboxes are hosted on other mail servers.
>>
>> I use also amavisd-new with spammassassin and clamav.
>> Postfix version is 2.8 and i use it with postscreen configuration.
>>
>> My problem is that I often see that mailq grows up to 7000 mails and it
>> takes about 2 hours to deliver those mails. I don't understand why it is
>> so slow. When i take a look at sender with qshape -s active i see who
>> are sending mails and it is always mailling, but it is not spam traffic.
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Jérémie
>>
>>

I don't understand what's slow,  you AVAS or your smarthost/relay server?

For amavis try increasing the number of forked processes and use sysstat
(iostat,pidstat,vmstat,sar) to monitor performance (graphing help too).

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Simone Caruso
IT Consultant
+39 349 65 90 805

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