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Help! Is this mail volume enought to crash my sever.

by derekwong28
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I have a dual xeon 3.0. 2GB server that is crashing repeadedly. I know there is a lot of spamming activity going on. Looking at the exim mail statistics, I wonder if anybody can tell me whether this is enough to crash my server?

Exim statistics from 2009-11-29 20:34:01 to 2009-12-03 21:59:27

Grand Total Summary

TOTAL Volume Messages Adresses Hosts
Received 201MB 30117 15491
Delivered 206MB 28921 28921 168
Rejects 129098 59169
Temp Rejects 886 267


Derek
#crash #enought #mail #sever #volume
  • Profile picture of the author SurviveUnemployment
    It depends on many factors, but if it's a dedicated mail server, that's not a lot of activity for almost an hour and a half.
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    • Profile picture of the author xiaophil
      Originally Posted by SurviveUnemployment View Post

      It depends on many factors, but if it's a dedicated mail server, that's not a lot of activity for almost an hour and a half.
      from 2009-11-29 20:34:01 to 2009-12-03 21:59:27
      Hour and a half? Try four days.
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  • Profile picture of the author yamahafzr
    That ain't much. Back in my blackhat days I used to send out 100k emails a day on a 80$/month dedi that had less than half the specs yours has and i never had an issue. You got other things to look into.
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  • Profile picture of the author derekwong28
    This is not a dedicated mail server but hosts a few hundred domains. I am thinking of moving to a more powerdul server but am not sure whether the problem can be sorted out.
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  • Profile picture of the author SurviveUnemployment
    I wouldn't worry about it if it's not slowing your sites down. It doesn't seem particularly heavy to me. Some days it seems like 30,000 messages hit my inbox alone. With e-mail users plus website apps using your mail server, it's probably just a period of heavy activity. If it continues or gets worse, contact your doctor.
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  • Profile picture of the author derekwong28
    Thanks, my server collapsed yesterday and had to been taken down and examined in the data center. It seems that it had a problem with a faulty cooling fan that was replaced. I hope this is the end of my problems as it had been playing up many times since August this year. At least I know that the spam mail is unlikely to be the cause of the problem.

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