Re: [AMaViS-user] Timing issues

Steve,

> We've recently upgraded our mail system (Postfix 2.2.8, amavisd-new 2.3.3)
> and I'm seeing some timeout issues. Now and then Postfix will mail me with
> "queue file write error" which from what I found can also be a problem with
> the pre-queue filter (this is how we're configured).

Yes, Postfix logs "queue file write error" in such setup.

> Feb 14 13:27:41 mercury amavis[25023]: (25023-08) TIMING [total 300433 ms]
> - SMTP EHLO: 3 (0%)0, SMTP pre-MAIL: 1 (0%)0, SMTP pre-DATA-flush: 461
> (0%)0, unlink-0-files: 299967 (100%)100, rundown: 0 (0%)100

> Feb 14 13:27:41 mercury amavis[25023]: (25023-08) ESMTP: NOTICE: ABORTING
> the session: timed out

> Now, Postfix is saying "timeout after DATA", but it looks to me like
> amavisd-new's problem was in unlinking zero files? Or is that message
> incorrect and the problem was elsewhere?

Most likely the problem is elsewhere, the unlink-0-files is probably
just an innocent bystander that accumulated all the timing in absence
of a better reason.

> I'm stumped on this one.. most of
> the time, these messages it times out on are junkmail, so I don't mind too
> much if it forces a spammer to try again - but now and then I'm getting
> user reports of anywhere from 15 seconds to 4 minutes to send an email.

Please try to capture such event with $log_level set to 5
(or 'amavisd debug').

Mark


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