Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-23 Thread Mark Martinec
Len, But I still feel there's something throttling amavis with the current hardware. This machine groans on passing 900 - 1100 msgs/hour? I think it can do a lot better. The quickest overview on the sanity of amavisd/SpamAssassin is what amavisd-nanny shows. Set $nanny_details_level to

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-23 Thread Moser
Mark Martinec schrieb: Is your amavisd older than 2.5.0 ??? If he had not updated meanwhile, yes: Len Conrad schrieb: FreeBSD 6.2 amavisd-new-2.4.3_1,1 p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5 clamav-0.93.3 Marc - This SF.Net

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-22 Thread Mark Martinec
Gerry Massat wrote: Have you enabled the ram disk for amavis temporary files? That made a huge difference on my system. For my system I have the following in /etc/rc.d : amavisd_ram=100M For my 1gb system with 2 amavis processes, seems to do the trick for me with no swapping. As I recall,

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-22 Thread Len Conrad
I've opened up amavis to 10 processes, not getting much help on the throughput. This one-liner prints time, postfix-to-amavis delivery delay this msg, avg delay all msgs egrep 'relay=127.*:10024' /var/log/maillog | egrep -iv conn_ | awk '{c++; a=substr($9,7); t+=a ; print $3, a,t/c}' I'm

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-22 Thread Len Conrad
Hello there Len, it's been a long time! Hello Eric, I am running a 55W Quad Core Opteron with 4Gb of RAM with only 4 amavisd processes and it runs like the wind I think you should install more memory, I realize you put 1MB but really you have 1GB yes? =) As I said, when the machine was

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-22 Thread Clifton Royston
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 02:07:16PM -0500, Len Conrad wrote: Hello there Len, it's been a long time! Hello Eric, I am running a 55W Quad Core Opteron with 4Gb of RAM with only 4 amavisd processes and it runs like the wind I think you should install more memory, I realize you put 1MB

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello there Len, it's been a long time! Hello Eric, I am running a 55W Quad Core Opteron with 4Gb of RAM with only 4 amavisd processes and it runs like the wind I think you should install more memory, I realize you put 1MB but really you have 1GB

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-22 Thread Len Conrad
But I still feel there's something throttling amavis with the current hardware. This machine groans on passing 900 - 1100 msgs/hour? I think it can do a lot better. You are definitely right; it seems to me there is still something very wrong with your setup. Your messages should be taking

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-22 Thread Noel Jones
Len Conrad wrote: But I still feel there's something throttling amavis with the current hardware. This machine groans on passing 900 - 1100 msgs/hour? I think it can do a lot better. You need to find out where the bottleneck is. Most average email messages should go through amavisd-new in a

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-22 Thread Noel Jones
Len Conrad wrote: But I still feel there's something throttling amavis with the current hardware. This machine groans on passing 900 - 1100 msgs/hour? I think it can do a lot better. You need to find out where the bottleneck is. Most average email messages should go through amavisd-new in a

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-22 Thread Mark Martinec
Len, But I still feel there's something throttling amavis with the current hardware. This machine groans on passing 900 - 1100 msgs/hour? I think it can do a lot better. The quickest overview on the sanity of amavisd/SpamAssassin is what amavisd-nanny shows. Set $nanny_details_level to 2 in

[AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-18 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD 6.2 amavisd-new-2.4.3_1,1 p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5 clamav-0.93.3 quad cpu 2 GHz 1 GB RAM , about 700 MB inactive or free spamd about 5% weighted CPU clamav about 10% wcpu vscan (amavis), 2 instances taking 75% wcpu cpu 0% idle amavis max msg 1000*1024 postfix active queue (sending

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-18 Thread Eugene Vilensky
vscan (amavis), 2 instances taking 75% wcpu What is the iowait time on this process(es)? - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-18 Thread Len Conrad
vscan (amavis), 2 instances taking 75% wcpu What is the iowait time on this process(es)? sorry, forgot to show that. iostat shows burtsy i/o with several seconds of no i/o, so it's not disk congestion iostat -c 30 tty ad0 cpu tin tout KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-18 Thread Len Conrad
Suggestions? Yes, you should be running much more than 2 instances of amavisd. was running 6, upped that to 10 about 1/2 ago. no change. sockstat -4 | egrep vscan vscanperl 36980 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:* vscanperl 36979 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:*

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-18 Thread Clifton Royston
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 06:34:23PM -0500, Len Conrad wrote: Suggestions? Yes, you should be running much more than 2 instances of amavisd. was running 6, upped that to 10 about 1/2 ago. no change. sockstat -4 | egrep vscan vscanperl 36980 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10024 *:*

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-18 Thread Len Conrad
so now I've got 10 vscan's democratically eating 100% CPU with avg cpu load of 10, 100+ MB RAM available. spamd and clamav worker bees still doing nearly 0% wcpu. Still doesn't seem right that amavis as an interface should be eating the entire machine while the content-scanners basically are

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-18 Thread Eugene Vilensky
so now I've got 10 vscan's democratically eating 100% CPU with avg cpu load of 10, 100+ MB RAM available. spamd and clamav worker bees still doing nearly 0% wcpu. Still doesn't seem right that amavis as an interface should be eating the entire machine while the content-scanners basically

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-18 Thread Gary V
On 9/18/08, Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so now I've got 10 vscan's democratically eating 100% CPU with avg cpu load of 10, 100+ MB RAM available. spamd and clamav worker bees still doing nearly 0% wcpu. Still doesn't seem right that amavis as an interface should be eating the

Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis eats the machine

2008-09-18 Thread Gerry Massat
Gary V wrote: On 9/18/08, Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so now I've got 10 vscan's democratically eating 100% CPU with avg cpu load of 10, 100+ MB RAM available. spamd and clamav worker bees still doing nearly 0% wcpu. Still doesn't seem right that amavis as an interface should