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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Patrick von der Hagen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> looks like sympa-daemon died when my harddisk was full Friday evening.
> Actually, that's strange since sympa has its own partition which was not
> affected.
>
> Anyway. This morning I found about 9500 messages in sympa/spool/msg. I
> restarted sympa and waited for the queue to be processed. However, speed
> is a nightmare. Sympa is processing less than one message/second, it
> took about 2 hours to process the first 3000 messages. That's about one
> message every 2 seconds. Since mail is continually delivered to sympa,
> the message-count shrinks even slower and I estimate it might get
> midnight, before the queue is completed. :-(
>
> Now, the cpu isn't idle, but there are plenty of cycles left. Memory is
> still availabe, no swapping. I reniced sympa.pl and task_manager, but it
> doesn't really help.
>
> Any ideas how to improve speed? Or how to identify the reason?
>
>   
Do you have a virus and/or spam checker in the mail path?  Some of the 
delay might be there.

Miles