I am running Redhat AS 3.0 and SA 2.63 with sendmail and spamass-milter. I will start by mentioning the following:
- I am processing about 10,000 msgs / hour
- This is a dual proc 3.2GHz Zeon with 2G of RAM. The system is not swapping at all (based on vmstat)
- I have already fixed the UTF8 issue
- I am not running any external checks (have run with spamd -L and still have the same issue)
- I have disabled the Bayes stuff (from the local.cf file)
- I am not running the auto white list stuff (from the local.cf file)
Now for the fun part… I am hitting loads of 10+ on the server on a regular basis which makes sendmail back off (I know how to fix the sendmail issue so please do not comment on that).
I have tried everything I can think of to take the load off the system but nothing is working for me.
When I do a TOP on the system, this is what I see…
18:57:50 up 8 days, 3:29, 2 users, load average: 9.37, 9.35, 9.38
124 processes: 108 sleeping, 16 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 74.4% 0.0% 22.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.4%
cpu00 76.1% 0.0% 21.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 1.7%
cpu01 70.2% 0.0% 26.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 3.4%
cpu02 76.7% 0.0% 21.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 1.9%
cpu03 74.6% 0.0% 22.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 2.6%
Mem: 2061652k av, 1496032k used, 565620k free, 0k shrd, 84660k buff
905668k actv, 258248k in_d, 8904k in_c
Swap: 2097112k av, 0k used, 2097112k free 439292k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
17262 mail 25 0 107M 107M 2400 R 7.9 5.3 0:01 2 spamd
17298 mail 25 0 108M 108M 2400 R 4.7 5.3 0:00 1 spamd
17284 mail 25 0 108M 108M 2392 R 4.5 5.3 0:00 3 spamd
17286 mail 25 0 108M 108M 2392 R 4.3 5.3 0:00 3 spamd
17301 mail 25 0 108M 108M 2412 R 3.5 5.3 0:00 3 spamd
17295 mail 25 0 107M 107M 2392 R 3.4 5.3 0:00 3 spamd
17333 mail 25 0 108M 108M 2392 R 3.4 5.3 0:00 2 spamd
17319 mail 25 0 108M 108M 2416 R 3.3 5.3 0:00 0 spamd
17310 mail 25 0 108M 108M 2416 R 3.0 5.3 0:00 1 spamd
17314 mail 25 0 108M 108M 2416 R 2.9 5.3 0:00 0 spamd
17330 mail 25 0 107M 107M 2412 R 2.9 5.3 0:00 0 spamd
7944 mail 23 0 107M 107M 2376 S 1.2 5.3 5:03 2 spamd
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can try next? Any help is greatly appriciated…
- Ryan
