On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Jeff Buehler wrote: > Hi Davide - > > Thanks for your input - > > I'm running OpenSSL (OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1). I'm not compiling against or > running any other SSL libs (that I am aware of - is there a simple way > to test?). I guess the important question is how much of a speed > slowdown one might expect when using SSL. > > As an addendum to what I am seeing, I found out that a user had sent out > something like 75 emails with a 9 mb attachment, which was causing the > problem in that instance. I have reduced max attachment size to about 4 > mb and things seem fine so far. However, 10 meg attachments have been > fine for the entire life of 1.23 and 1.22 configured the same way (ASSP > -> ClamSMTP -> XMail for 2 years or so?). This is a duel Opteron with 2 > gb ram on a 1.5 mb/1.5 mb line, so it should be able to handle that kind > of load, I would think - I am not seeing any significant loads in > general. The server handles about 5000 email requests per day. > > I would suspect the ASSP -> ClamSMTP (ClamAV) -> Xmail as the culprit, > but in this case XMail was running up the cpu cycles, and the email was > outgoing not coming in. It would try to send the 9 mb attachment out, > ramp up to about 98% then fail any further connections.
Well, I don't know. XMail can handle that load hands down with that machine. You can try to un-plug one of the components to see where the problem is. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
