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

[Julian Field]

Try setting
skip_rbl_checks 1
in spam.assassin.prefs.conf and see if that helps. You will need to restart
MailScanner after setting this.

At 16:22 04/06/2003, you wrote:
>We've a SunBlade 100 (500 Mhz) with 500 Mem running Solaris 2.8.  The
>machine does nothing other than MailScanning.  It is not even a MailServer.
>
>The MailScanner itself works perfectly.  It is only when I turn on
>SpamAssassin that the load on the machine gets really high.  A lot of mail
>gets accumulated in the incoming queue waiting to be scanned.  I'm running
>15 mailscanner processes and it forks and gets doubled whenever I turn on
>SpamAssassin.  Pretty soon the following error shows up in the log:
>Jun  3 15:57:07 nisc4 MailScanner[5766]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
>killed, consecutive failure 1 of 20
>Jun  3 15:57:41 nisc4 MailScanner[5758]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
>killed, consecutive failure 1 of 20
>Jun  3 15:58:14 nisc4 MailScanner[5750]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
>killed, consecutive failure 1 of 20
>Jun  3 16:00:08 nisc4 MailScanner[5774]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
>killed, consecutive failure 1 of 20
>
>Have others seen this problem?  How have you fixed the problem?  We've
>MailScanner-4.20-3 with SpamAssassin-2.50.  The SpamAssassin Timeout is set
>to 40 and Scanner timeout is set to 10 (that is the default in that version
>of MailScanner)
>
>I'd really appreciate some suggestions.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Vasantha
>
>
>
>
>At 05:37 PM 6/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>What kind of horsepower does your box have?  OS?
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>>Of Chris W. Parker
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:28 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: SpamAssassin timed out and was killed... box too slow?
>>
>>
>>Vasantha Narayanan <mailto:vnarayan at HAVERFORD.EDU> wrote:
>>
>> > Did you find a solution yet?
>>
>>No I did not.
>>
>> > I'm having the same problem.
>>
>>I feel your pain. :(
>>
>>
>>
>>Chris.
>
>VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
>Vasantha Narayanan
>Networking and Systems                  email: vnarayan at haverford.edu
>Haverford College, PA                   Phone:
>610-896-1110

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