Pete > Can > > it be that it's overloaded? What kind of messages/sec are we talking about > > here? > > It works fine even with 16 concurrent smtpds and perls going and things - it > is just the moment > |-perl5.8.0(6211)---sh(6257)---reformime(6263) > |-perl5.8.0(6214)---perl5.8.0(6264) > turns up 4 or 5 times or more it slows right down and my load avg goes up > from 1-3 to 7 to 15. > > It is doing about maybe 5 - 10 mesg a second a peak time - 40 k - at the > moment maybe 1 every few seconds? >
One thing you've never said is if this has ever worked OK for you - or is this the first time you've had a go an AV scanning on your Qmail servers? In your original msg you said these were RAID-1 IDE disks - I wonder just how well they'll handle the load. As the Q-S docs say, running AV software over each and every mail message adds a HUGE load to a box. Another AV SMTP product I know of says that it takes 10x the hardware to deal with the same amount of e-mail once you turn AV scanning on - so if your boxes were >10% busy before you enabled Q-S - you may indeed find the box isn't up to the load. RAID-1 means write every file TWICE - once to each disk. Q-S does lots of I/O while scanning,etc... I run SCSI-based servers that handle a similar load - and I MADE SURE I put the /var/ partition onto a non-RAIDed disk for these very reasons. Oh yeah - and we have TWO of those boxes - not one... In the end - I don't know. I don't have enough information about your environment and history to know whether this is a new problem, or a problem that has occurred since you started using Q-S... -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
