Bradley:
Fought the same battle here just last week literally. With the help of
Larry Rosenman from the SA/Exim lists we got it working VERY well
here. It's basically a machine load issue for me, and I'm guessing for
you as well.
First thing...with SA are you running either of these rules:
blacklist-uri.cafe
blacklist.cf
They are both HUGE CPU hogs, remove tem from your rule sets.
Second:
Are your cleaning up after exim/SA? If not this script will do it for
you, I'd run it nightly around midnight here check the path names and
correct to match your setup:
# more /usr/sbin/exim-cleanup
exim_dbdir=/var/spool/exim
exim_tidydb=/usr/local/exim/sbin/exim_tidydb
echo ""
echo "Tidying Exim hints databases:"
for db in "$exim_dbdir"/db/*.lockfile; do
echo ""
"$exim_tidydb" "$exim_dbdir" `basename $db .lockfile`
done
ll /usr/local/exim/exiscan/virusmails
ll /usr/local/exim/spool/scan
rm /usr/local/exim/exiscan/virusmails/*
rm -r /usr/local/exim/spool/scan/*
These 2 items basically took my system load from a 10-12 and put it at
.89 and my mail queue from HOURS of queue time to avg less than a
minute:
Plus these command lines (with appropriate editing will give some nice
stats:
Subject: Cron /usr/sbin/sa-stats -l /var/log/exim -f mail
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:50:47 -0600
Email: 22065 Autolearn: 2 AvgScore: 13.51 AvgScanTime:
32.73 sec
Spam: 10091 Autolearn: 1 AvgScore: 29.70 AvgScanTime:
32.59 sec
Ham: 11974 Autolearn: 1 AvgScore: -0.14 AvgScanTime:
32.85 sec
Time Spent Running SA: 200.62 hours
Time Spent Processing Spam: 91.34 hours
Time Spent Processing Ham: 109.28 hours
Subject: Cron /usr/local/exim/sbin/eximstats -ne -nr
/var/log/exim/mainlog
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:50:58 -0600
Exim statistics from 2006-01-15 05:05:09 to 2006-01-18 23:50:48
Grand total summary
-------------------
At least one
address
TOTAL Volume Messages Hosts Delayed Failed
Received 107MB 7712 1032 417 5.4% 113
1.5%
Delivered 266MB 36558 378
Deliveries by transport
-----------------------
Volume Messages
address_file 2518KB 544
address_pipe 11MB 1196
procmail 84MB 6393
remote_smtp 169MB 28425
Try these suggestions and let me know how it goes.
I'm happy to try to help out more.
George
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