2500 timeouts a day!

[Ugo Bellavance]

Max Kipness wrote:

>>>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.
>>>
>>
>>True, your DCC doesn't seem to work.
>>
>>Do you have anything in your logs when you get a timeout?
>
>
> Nope, just the following:
>
> SpamAssassin timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1 of 20.
>

what is the load on your server, maybe it is i/o or cpu bound... but
most likely it is the network...  have you checked the MAQ's
optimisation section?

> Max
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