2500 timeouts a day!

[Martin Hepworth]

Max Kipness wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm being plagued by about 2500 spamassassin timeouts per day that is
> obviously allowing spam to slip through. I read on a previous post to
> kill all MS processes and set MS and SA to debug, then run
> check_MailScanner and look for pauses? I've done this several times and
> don't really see anything. Is there any other way that I can figure out
> what my problem is?
>
> I run several SA rules and run a huge blacklist. I thought I was running
> DCC ok, but the debug shows that it's not working now.
>
> Here is a the output of the debug. If anybody could help me with this, I
> would sure appreciate it.
>

<snip>

max I started to see alot of timeouts as my server load increased. I've
moved off as many RBL's as possible (just using a couple inside SA),
moved the bigevil.cf etc to use surbl.org instead and made sure I have a
name server (caching only) running my my MS box.

I also reduced the number of children and the max number of messages to
process at time.

Now the timeouts have reduced dramatically.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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