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

[Vasantha Narayanan]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:06:18 +0100 Julian Field wrote:

> At 17:28 04/06/2003, you wrote:
> >At 04:37 PM 6/4/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >>Try setting
> >>skip_rbl_checks 1
> >
> >
> >I've already set skip_rbl_checks 1 in the spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> >file.  In the debug mode, it said  that Razor2 and Pyzor were not
> >availabe.  So I also made the following entries in
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> >so that I can eliminate any of the below to be the cause of the problem:
> >use_dcc 0
> >use_pyzor 0
> >use_razor1 0
> >use_razor2 0
> >use_bayes 0
> >
> >In debug mode, a couple of lines seem bothersome -
> >
> >unix passed to setlogsock, but path not available at
> >/opt/MailScanner/lib/MailSc
> >anner/Log.pm line 62
> >
> >and
> >
> >debug: Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping:
> >defang_mime 0
> >
> >Could they be the cause of the timeout problem?
>
> Shouldn't be, no. Try reducing to 1 child process (Max Children = 1 in
> MailScanner.conf) then see how it behaves.
>

Tony Finch <dot at DOTAT.AT> also suggested reducing the child processes.
When I reduced it to 5 instead of 15, I found that the, " Jun  4 17:34:23
nisc4 MailScanner[19761]: SpamAssassin timed out and was killed,
consecutive failure 1 of 20" appeared after an hour of starting the
MailScanner.  Then it appeared an hour later.

 When I reduced it to 1 child process, I did not get the error for over 3
hours.  But a lot of mail got accumulated in the incoming mail queue that
I had to stop MailScanner and restart it without SpamAssassin to process
the mail.


Vasantha

>
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Vasantha
> >
> >
> >>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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> >>Julian Field
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> >Vasantha Narayanan
> >Networking and Systems                  email: vnarayan at haverford.edu
> >Haverford College, PA                   Phone:
> >610-896-1110
>
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