Mailscanner Spamassassin timing out

[Billy Pumphrey]

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I let it run for a bit and it seems to be at least processing some messages now and then before it times out again.  I had this problem before but I increase the timeout and it worked last time.  Maybe it is just too slow of a machine and is just getting killed right now?

500mhz
384mb RAM
Average messages per day        2,462

The logwatch that returns usually shows that there were load volumes of around 12 about 4-5 times.

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From: Billy Pumphrey [mailto:billy at PLANETGEEK.BIZ] 
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 5:43 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Mailscanner Spamassassin timing out

I searched the archive and found plenty about the errors of it timing out, but I just cannot find out what the problem is.

Did I change anything?
Yes.  I added a few entries in the access file for REJECT.  I received no errors on this file after I edited it.

What are the errors in the maillog.  Something like this:
0:15:00
Nov 29 17:24:56 MailScanner sendmail[2880]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt
by bpumphrey
Nov 29 17:24:56 MailScanner sendmail[2880]: /etc/aliases: 64 aliases, longest 28
 bytes, 657 bytes total
Nov 29 17:24:56 MailScanner sendmail[2889]: starting daemon (8.12.8): SMTP
Nov 29 17:24:56 MailScanner sm-msp-queue[2894]: starting daemon (8.12.8): queuei
ng at 00:15:00
Nov 29 17:24:56 MailScanner sendmail[2900]: starting daemon (8.12.8): queueing at 0
0:15:00
Nov 29 17:25:04 MailScanner MailScanner[2925]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.25-14 starting...
Nov 29 17:25:13 MailScanner MailScanner[2957]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.25-14 starting...
Nov 29 17:25:23 MailScanner MailScanner[2960]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.25-14 starting...
Nov 29 17:25:34 MailScanner MailScanner[2961]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.25-14 starting...
Nov 29 17:25:44 MailScanner MailScanner[2962]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.25-14 starting...
Nov 29 17:25:53 MailScanner MailScanner[2925]: Using locktype = flock
Nov 29 17:25:54 MailScanner MailScanner[2925]: New Batch: Found 692 messages wai
ting
Nov 29 17:25:56 MailScanner MailScanner[2925]: New Batch: Scanning 30 messages,
123697 bytes
Nov 29 17:25:56 MailScanner MailScanner[2925]: Spam Checks: Starting
Nov 29 17:26:22 MailScanner MailScanner[2957]: Using locktype = flock
Nov 29 17:26:27 MailScanner MailScanner[2957]: New Batch: Found 692 messages wai
ting
Nov 29 17:26:27 MailScanner MailScanner[2957]: New Batch: Scanning 30 messages,
82308 bytes
Nov 29 17:26:29 MailScanner MailScanner[2957]: Spam Checks: Starting
Nov 29 17:27:10 MailScanner MailScanner[2925]: SpamAssassin timed out and was ki
lled, consecutive failure 1 of 20
Nov 29 17:27:13 MailScanner MailScanner[2962]: Using locktype = flock
Nov 29 17:27:18 MailScanner MailScanner[2962]: New Batch: Found 692 messages wai
ting
Nov 29 17:27:18 MailScanner MailScanner[2962]: New Batch: Scanning 30 messages,
370968 bytes
Nov 29 17:27:20 MailScanner MailScanner[2962]: Spam Checks: Starting
Nov 29 17:27:24 MailScanner MailScanner[2961]: Using locktype = flock
Nov 29 17:27:24 MailScanner MailScanner[2961]: New Batch: Found 692 messages wai
ting
Nov 29 17:27:24 MailScanner MailScanner[2961]: New Batch: Scanning 30 messages,
402914 bytes
Nov 29 17:27:25 MailScanner MailScanner[2961]: Spam Checks: Starting
Nov 29 17:27:44 MailScanner MailScanner[2957]: SpamAssassin timed out and was ki
lled, consecutive failure 1 of 20
Nov 29 17:28:27 MailScanner MailScanner[2961]: SpamAssassin timed out and was ki
lled, consecutive failure 1 of 20

For the full log, go here â^Æ^Ò http://www.indysmash.com/downloads/maillog

My spamassassin timeout was at the default of 10, then I rose it to eventually 40 and the timeouts still happen.  The first things that were appearing in the log were the spamassassin timeout, but first there were RBL timeouts.  The log has the entries in there.  I then commented out the RBL list in the MailScanner.conf and that did not help.  I also restart the whole machine and that didnâ^À^Ùt help.

Please let me know what more information that you need.

Thank you for your help.

Billy Pumphrey
IT Manager
Wooden & McLaughlin

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