many spamassassin timeouts

[Mickey Everts]

Here is something very weird I just noticed in trying to track this down.
Here is just a small sample of my logs, but notice the time outs happen
almost exactly every ten minutes? I am running mailscanner-4.25-14. 

Jan 31 05:48:41 defender MailScanner[18146]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 05:59:05 defender MailScanner[17813]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 06:09:02 defender MailScanner[17717]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 06:19:03 defender MailScanner[18146]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 06:29:41 defender MailScanner[17795]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 06:39:26 defender MailScanner[17813]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 06:50:14 defender MailScanner[17717]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 07:00:05 defender MailScanner[18146]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 07:10:43 defender MailScanner[17795]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 07:20:32 defender MailScanner[17795]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 07:30:42 defender MailScanner[17784]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 07:40:45 defender MailScanner[17717]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 07:50:53 defender MailScanner[18146]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 08:00:48 defender MailScanner[17717]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 08:11:01 defender MailScanner[17795]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10 
Jan 31 08:20:59 defender MailScanner[17717]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10

Mickey

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Julian Field
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 6:37 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: many spamassassin timeouts

At 21:17 30/01/2004, you wrote:
>I turned on Debug = yes and Debug SpamAssassin = yes but I am not seeing
>output similar to below in maillog.  Should I be looking elsewhere else? I
>am trying to track down the source of some spamassassin timeouts I have
been
>having.  Ideally I need to log the equivalent of "spamassassin -D" for a
few
>hours.

Those 2 options will cause "check_mailscanner" to log all the SA output to
the terminal. It will process 1 batch of messages and then quit.
I have been getting a lot of Razor timeouts recently, and have currently
disabled it. You can do this by adding
use_razor2 0
to your spam.assassin.prefs.conf and restarting MailScanner.



>Thanks!
>
>Mickey
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf
>Of Piet Bos
>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 3:02 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: many spamassassin timeouts
>
>a part of the debug output.
>I find the  0 behind Net::DNS resolver unavailable rather curious
>do you agree?
>
>grtz Piet
>
>debug: running raw-body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=4.3
>debug: running uri tests; score so far=4.3
>debug: uri tests: Done uriRE
>debug: running full-text regexp tests; score so far=4.3
>debug: Razor2 is not available
>debug: DCC is not available: dccproc not found
>debug: Razor1 is not available
>debug: Pyzor is not available: pyzor not found
>debug: is Net::DNS::Resolver unavailable? 0
>debug: trying (3) gwdg.de...
>debug: looking up MX for 'gwdg.de'
>debug: MX for 'gwdg.de' exists? 1
>debug: MX lookup of gwdg.de succeeded => Dns available (set dns_available
to
>hardcode)
>debug: is DNS available? 1
>debug: running meta tests; score so far=5.3
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:39 AM
>Subject: Re: many spamassassin timeouts
>
>
> > Run with Debug = yes and Debug SpamAssassin = yes, and see where the
> > slow-down is.
> >
> > At 08:33 26/01/2004, you wrote:
> > >Experiencing many spamassassin timeouts lately.
> > >Is there a valid reason for that?
> > >I'm using version 4.26-1 starting
> > >my settings in MailScanner.conf are:
> > >SpamAssassin Timeout = 40
> > >Max SpamAssassin Timeouts = 50
> > >
> > >Any suggestions?
> > >brgds Piet
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >
> > PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

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MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654