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b19wll wrote:I use Nagios to monitor the queue on my boxes, if that helps?

Sure! How do you do it? Do you use the script described here http://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/21223-m ... on-postfix ?

Or there is a simpler way?

If you run top there are multiple items that can go up:

from my local workstation which is doing nothing:
Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st

if the %wa is high it might be a disk IO bottle neck.

You might also try to run:
vmstat 1 100
and
iostat 1 100 ...

Default efa Children is set to 2 so as you are running with 8 I guess you changed something :)
If you upgrade to 8 cpu's then it should be good to keep the current values.

In top press '1' does it use all available cpu's ?

Never tried using more than 8 cpu's on a hyper-v setup will try later on ...

If you look in vmware how is the memory utilization there?

Also I would play around with the mailscanner childeren, it is probably faster to limit your children..( I normaly don't use more than the ammount of cores I have).
In your case it seems like the processing queue is building up, so the ...

I have 2 systems running that do a bunch of traffic (about 50 to 75k each day)

one as primary and the other as secondary but did some config changes to the VM to make it run, but beside that its just running the default EFA appliance.
VM is upgraded to 16 virtual cpu's and 64GB mem.

The advantage ...

Hi sharktech,

Did it work? I am currently monitoring E.F.A.'s CPU, Memory, etc, via PRTG. I would like to monitor queues as well to be alerted if a problem occurs.

Let me know if it did work out for you.

Thanks.
Rafael

Ops.

After manually refreshing, pressing F5, it shows the correct numbers.

Sometimes I forget to try the most simple solutions and start looking for complicated things.

I was confused because both pages (main page and inbound/outbound page) did refresh automatically, but the number of messages ...

Hi,

When I am logged in my EFA system, on the main page where I can see the last 50 messagens, the "Mail Queues" shows Inbound: 445 Outbound: 25.

When I click to see the Queues, those numbers change to something like Inbound: 10 and Outbound: 23.

Back on the main page, I see the high numbers ...

Hi,

This is how my server is currently running:

http://s10.postimg.org/iij92ps7t/load.png

I have not changed default EFA configs, but I have doubled default VM processors and RAM (4 procs and 4Gb RAM).

EFA have processed 6,600 messages and its 10 am. In a 24 hour period it is processing around ...

Hi shawn,

Is there any indicator to show me when I should increase memory and procs? I am not sure how to interpret the load average...

Thank you for your answer and keep up the good work!

Hi,

I work at a ISP and I was looking for a anti-spam gateway server. After testing several (commercial) solutions, I am happy I have found EFA. This thing is great. Congrats to the people that have put time and effort into it, specially for making it free.

Well, I have read some topics already ...