03-Sep-2012

No surprises
The automated maintenance program run last Saturday – without surprises. Even the new WASD environment has been handled correctly. The only thing to watch are the WASD logfiles of July that seem to be missing. But these have been saved before.
Mail statistics
Here as well: no surprises…..
PMAS statistics for August
Total messages    :   7689 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :   2159 =  28.0 o/o (Files: 31)
Relay attempts    :    189 =   2.4 o/o (Files: 25)
Accepted by PMAS  :   5341 =  69.4 o/o (Files: 31)
 Handled by explicit rule
        Rejected :   4804 =  89.9 o/o (processed),  62.4 o/o (all)
        Accepted :    194 =   3.6 o/o (processed),   2.5 o/o (all)
 Handled by content
       Discarded :     83 =   1.5 o/o (processed),   1.0 o/o (all)
    Quarantained :    216 =   4.0 o/o (processed),   2.8 o/o (all)
       Delivered :     44 =    .8 o/o (processed),    .5 o/o (all)

As for this weekend, the number of spam messages is, again, very low. Perhaps the blocking of certain addresses, based on FTP access, does help, or there are indeed a number of sites taken offline. Or infected PC’s have been switched of in the weekend?
One thing, though, to dive into: almost every day, there is a peak in CPU usage and paging between 18:00 and 21:00, system time. But the web log seems to show no real increase in the number of accesses, or bytes transferred, so it must be something else: Samba, perhaps, when a PC comes online?