Follow-up to SpamAssassin Hangup

[Julian Field]

At 09:16 16/07/2002, you wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:38:11AM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > On my own setup : 8 SA "timeouts" observed, 7 in the first 4 hours after
> > a restart and 1 outside this scope.
>
>For me, after the last manual restart of mailscanner, 776 kills in the
>first 4 hours, 0 (zero) kills after the first auto re-exec.  Already
>passed over 15K mails after that point.

I really can't explain this one. Obviously it runs the same code before the
restart as after it, so why the difference?


> > Did all your SA kills occur during the four hours after a restart or
> > do you have any strange occurence ?
>
>Exactly during the first 4 hours.  Something magical happens at the
>re-exec point.
>
>Your data matches with mine.  That 1 kill outside scope was probably due
>to DNS timeouts or SA really taking more than its allotted time.  See
>what happens if you increase the SA timout.  Mine is set at 25 now.
>
>--
>Mojahed
>System Administrator, Agni Systems Limited

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