[Mimedefang] MD bottleneck problem

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Mon Sep 29 12:23:01 EDT 2003


On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Stephen L Johnson wrote:

> Over the week-end something happened on my test MD server. The MD slaves
> seem to be taking a long time to process incoming e-mails.  And this is
> causing MAXSLAVES to be running. There doesn't seems to be any sort of
> excess incoming e-mail. And I can't seem to find any problems in the
> normal Milter and MD syslog entries. I've also logging MX_STATS and I
> still can't see an problems.

Could it be a network-related issue?  Are you using any DNS RBL's,
Razor, Pyzor, DCC, etc in your filter?

If you trace a busy slave (truss/ptrace/ktrace, depending on OS), what is
it stuck doing?

Regards,

David.



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