Spamassassin timeouts and logfiles

[Marcel Burggraeve]

Most of the spam which slips through is because of a spamassassin timeout.
I've set log speed in the mailscanner.conf hoping to find out what's going
on but it doesn't help me much.
In the past we were using the bigevil list but at the moment we're using
surbl.

What can we do/check to get more information about the reasons for these
timeouts ?

Some examples from the maillog :

Jul 21 00:41:49 ns2 sendmail[4438]: i6KMfmT04438:
from=<yAskey at thecoolerstmp.com>, size=1034, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=UQCAQOJDHIGPJQEEISLAUK at thecoolerstmp.com>, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA,
relay=adsl-67-119-159-158.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.159.158]
Jul 21 00:41:50 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 1555 bytes
Jul 21 00:41:50 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: MCP Checks completed at
1555 bytes per second
Jul 21 00:41:50 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Spam Checks: Starting
Jul 21 00:43:50 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: SpamAssassin timed out
and was killed, failure 1 of 20
Jul 21 00:43:51 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Delete bayes lockfile for
4439
Jul 21 00:43:51 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Spam Checks completed at
12 bytes per second
Jul 21 00:43:52 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Virus and Content
Scanning: Starting
Jul 21 00:43:56 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Virus Scanning completed
at 311 bytes per second
Jul 21 00:43:57 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Content Checks: Detected
and will disarm HTML message in i6KMfmT04438
Jul 21 00:43:57 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
messages
Jul 21 00:43:57 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Virus Processing
completed at 1555 bytes per second
Jul 21 00:43:57 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Disinfection completed at
1555 bytes per second
Jul 21 00:43:57 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Batch completed at 12
bytes per second (1555 / 127)
Jul 21 00:43:57 ns2 sendmail[4447]: i6KMfmT04438: to=marcel1,
delay=00:02:09, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=121034, dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent

Jul 21 02:50:50 ns2 sendmail[5224]: i6L0odT05224:
from=<Claire72 at tebubone.com>,size=2424, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<00000000000.00000 at Claire72tebubone.com>, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA,
relay=dhcp024-209-052-060.neo.rr.com [24.209.52.60]
Jul 21 02:50:51 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 2966 bytes
Jul 21 02:50:51 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: MCP Checks completed at
2966 bytes per second
Jul 21 02:50:51 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Spam Checks: Starting
Jul 21 02:52:51 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: SpamAssassin timed out
and was killed, failure 4 of 20
Jul 21 02:52:52 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Delete bayes lockfile for
5225
Jul 21 02:52:52 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Spam Checks completed at
24 bytes per second
Jul 21 02:52:53 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Virus and Content
Scanning: Starting
Jul 21 02:52:59 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Virus Scanning completed
at 423 bytes per second
Jul 21 02:52:59 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
messages
Jul 21 02:52:59 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Virus Processing
completed at 2966 bytes per second
Jul 21 02:52:59 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Disinfection completed at
2966 bytes per second
Jul 21 02:52:59 ns2.plusine.com MailScanner[4284]: Batch completed at 23
bytes per second (2966 / 128)
Jul 21 02:52:59 ns2 sendmail[5233]: i6L0odT05224: to=marcel1,
delay=00:02:10, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=122424, dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent

Best regards,

Marcel Burggraeve

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