I am leaving on vacation for a couple of weeks on Friday.  On my return 
I will see if I can lab test this and get to the bottom of it - if so, I 
will make certain to notify the list of whatever I find...

Thanks again,
Jeff

Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
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