Heavy Load

[tu3e]

I run Scalix 11.1 on opensuse 10.1with 70 mail accounts and many mails per user
(normal and/or spam). Every monday i have a heavy load value (~20). Whats wrong
with scalix?

[Valerion]

Run top and see what process it claims is using the CPU. My bet, without any additional information, would be on omscan - by default a new omscan server cycle gets run every 7 days. On small deployments this should be over fairly fast. omscan -t will give information on what the last run was like.

[adhodgson]

Hi,

What is the usual procedure for making Omscan run in the weekend? Our version runs on Tuesday, possibly because that was when I installed Scalix originally. Do people disable Omscan according to omscan.cfg, and run it via Cron only?

Andrew.

[Valerion]

One of my clients wants to run it only on specific times, and he set it up with a smaller time in omscan.cfg, and then using cron to start and stop the service. You should check your run time as well, maybe you can run it during the night, kick of a server cycle just before you leave for home, for example.

[mikethebike]

Yes, we always had omscan.cfg set to 7 day delay, and ran from cron. The default is to start the scan at startup (zero delay).
OPTIONS= -x -v -D 7 -r

Check your cron to ensure you are not restarting the omscan server on Tuesday, or if you have a cron job set up to run it on Tuesdays.

if you have the delay set to 7 days, kick off a scan this weekend (a manual one), and then set a cron job for each weekend after.

Mick