SpamAssassin timed out and was killed... box too slow?

[Julian Field]

At 21:53 02/06/2003, you wrote:
>Kevin Spicer <mailto:kevins at BMRB.CO.UK> wrote:
>
> > > Actually I've got RBL checking turned off and my SA timeout is
> > > already set at 60s.
> >
> > > Any other ideas?
> >
> > Well, IIRC SA does some lookups anyway (even with rbls turned off),
> > not to mention any of the razor, pyzor, dcc checks you may or may not
> > be using.  Anyway its nothing to worry about if its just the
> > occasional message.
>
>I would agree except that I think it happens more than occasionally. Let
>me ask this question, even though it seems to time out frequently the
>consecutive failure count usually doesn't go past one. Here is an example,
>a few lines from my log. (i modified each line to try and shorten it as
>much as I could.) (These are all from today.)
>
>Jun 2 12:23:03 MS[nn]: SA timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1
>of 20
>Jun 2 12:23:36 MS[nn]: SA timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1
>of 20
>Jun 2 12:46:38 MS[nn]: SA timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1
>of 20
>Jun 2 12:48:21 MS[nn]: SA timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1
>of 20
>Jun 2 13:16:31 MS[nn]: SA timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1
>of 20
>Jun 2 13:16:36 MS[nn]: SA timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1
>of 20
>Jun 2 13:16:36 MS[nn]: SA timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1
>of 20
>Jun 2 13:27:05 MS[nn]: SA timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1
>of 20
>Jun 2 13:29:03 MS[nn]: SA timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 2
>of 20
>Jun 2 13:33:22 MS[nn]: SA timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 2
>of 20
>Jun 2 13:35:12 MS[nn]: SA timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 2
>of 20
>Jun 2 13:42:31 MS[nn]: SA timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 3
>of 20
>
>Does the consecutive failure count get reset every few minutes or
>something? Otherwise I don't understand why the number stays at 1 so much.
>It looks like it is well on it's way to 20 but the last timeout only shows 3.
>
>It seems to me that if the count went to 20 all the time it would indicate
>that the box is indeed too slow.

Was the value of "nn" always the same? If not, then it is all different
independent MailScanner processes timing out.
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Julian Field
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