SpamAssassin timed out and was killed... box to o slow?

[Desai, Jason]

> > > On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 20:59, Chris W. Parker wrote:
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > We have relatively low email traffic (approx. 450/day on work days)
> > and I receive quite a few of these in my /var/log/maillog:
> >
> > > May 17 04:03:08 filter MailScanner[3324]: SpamAssassin
> timed out and
> > > was killed, consecutive failure 1 of 20
> >
> > > Does this mean my computer is too slow? It's a 200mhz pentium!!!
> >
> > Probably not - more likely this was an RBL which failed to
> respond in
> > a timely fashion.  It probably a good idea to tweak the SpamAssassin
> > Timeout in MailScanner.conf to 40s (if its not there
> already) as some
> > internal SpamAssassin timeouts are 30s.
>
> Actually I've got RBL checking turned off and my SA timeout
> is already set at 60s.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
>
> Chris.

You can try turning off bayes checking in spam assassin by setting

use_bayes 0

in spam.assasin.prefs.conf

Jason