[ctw] Re: Observations on load

  • From: webcatalog@xxxxxxx
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  • Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:59:36 -0500

One thing I forgot to do was set EIMS to accept more than 5 connections from one source. With the Proxy being my only source It needs to have more connections to EIMS than the limit I set for others attaching to it. I had my smtp set to accept 50 connections but only 5 to one source. The proxy took 5 and that is all it could take. So I was essentially throttled without knowing it


On Mar 18, 2009, at 10:40 PM, webcatalog@xxxxxxx wrote:

Well as it turns out my load is actually a bit higher, after 24 hours here is my stat: messages: 20109 (18149.0 per day), cpu 89.71% (49.05% avg). So I think I gotta bump up the processing.

What say you?

On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Tom Shaw wrote:

At 4:21 PM -0500 3/17/09, webcatalog@xxxxxxx wrote:
I am running about 5,000 messages a day, ASSP is running on a G4 mac mini. At its peaks I am running about 70% avg of the processor. Just curious how this compares to other folks running ASSP. Complete avg is about 5.4% but my concerns are the peaks. I may switch to an intel based unit. Anybody else have good stats for peak hours? I got them by restarting assp at 10am and running till 4pm.

Bob

I am running assp 1.5.1 final with clam 095RC2 and I also am on a G4 mac mini I show peaks at 47% and average 4% for around 4K messages per day for the last 2 days. I have been restarting a couple of times per day to rest release candidates. For me this load is higher than normal because I have package maker running at the dame time so I can build a final distribution so memory and cpu is being eaten by others.

I can say this after running assp for quite a while.

1) real memory is good and cuts down load
2) a lightly filled disk is good. Or run something like TechTool to unfrag the disk so that virtual memory operates faster. 3) ASSP doesn't hog CPU like EIMS. We see 100% load peaks all the time with EIMS where EIMS totally takes over the machine and will not let anything else run even in an untimely fashion. I ran stress testing a while ago and found that even when assp was peaking other processes ran fine.

Also remember my initial defaults leaned toward score and tag. You can cut down load by blocking on various tests like bad helo

I had hope to get the final out today but it looks like tomorrow - <sigh>

Tom
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