Sorry, I should have added more detail to this... - I limit the message size to 50k - I limit sendmail connections to 20 - I limit spamassassin spawning to 10 (-m10) - I am using the bigevil and blacklist rulesets
Other then upgrading to 3.0 Pre 2 (which one person suggested to me) can anyone think of anything else to reduce the load? I can take out the rule sets but this is not the 'best' solution as we would really like to catch more spam. Any last thoughts? - Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Massive Load Issues... On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 07:00:28PM -0400, Ryan Ferguson wrote: > 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 You don't mention what rulesets you are using. I'll guess the list includes blacklist.cf and bigevil.cf. If so, rename blacklist.cf and restart spamd and see if things improve. If using bigevil only, rename it and try the same thing. Both those rulesets have grown so large that they are deprecated in favor of installing Mail::SpamAssassin::SpamCopURI and its spamcop_uri.cf. See http://ws.surbl.org/ Also note that it will bust three of the redirect tests. You can safely ignore them and force the install. Then you can tear out blacklist*.cf and bigevil.cf. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com What did Noah do with the woodpeckers?
