Mailscanner Spamassassin timing out

[Billy Pumphrey]

Note:  I am a novice at Linux.

SpamAssassin Timeout = 60
Max SpamAssassin Timeouts = 20

Version of Spamassassin = Looks like 2.61

I am running RulesDuJour

I don't really know if my bayes is working.  I tried to get it working a
while back and I got lost in the mist of bayes somewhere along the
line.  So I'll have to go back again and read about Bayes.

I upgraded the RAM just now to 768 so hopefully that will help.

I could have swore that somewhere in the log it timed out so much that it
said that it disable RBL checks.  Would have this happened?  Where do   I
check?

Sample of load average (before I upgraded the RAM)
Connections Rejected due to load average::
    Load Avg 12: 5 Times(s)
    Load Avg 13: 1 Times(s)
    Load Avg 14: 1 Times(s)

Here is the spam list in my mailscanner.conf if it helps any:
Spam List = ORDB-RBL spamcop.net spamhaus.org

I bypassed the MailScanner machine yesterday.  After increasing the RAM and
letting it run through the 6xx messages that it had, it seems to be running
ok now and I put it back into production.  Its average number of emails in a
batch usually is around 6.  Could it have been that a few particular
messages were sent to the machine that were just big or something?

"If you have those disable bayes_auto_expire in
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and set "Rebuild Bayes Every" in
MailScanner.conf."

I checked my local.cf file and there are nothing in there but comments.  I
looked in my MailScanner.conf for a Rebuild Bayes setting and there was
none.  I am guessing that this is because my MailScanner version is older,
4.25-14.

The command free returns this (remember I just put more ram in it)
[root at MailScanner root]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        772408     361576     410832          0      23948      52856
-/+ buffers/cache:     284772     487636
Swap:       393112          0     393112

So It looks like it was probably defiantly out of ram.  I look at free even
before it was processing any mail and the machine was using 26x megs of RAM.




-----Original Message-----
From: Venkata Achanta [mailto:vachanta at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:29 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mailscanner Spamassassin timing out

SpamAssassin Timeout =
Max SpamAssassin Timeouts =
What are these set to in your conf file ?



On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:04:15 -0500, Billy Pumphrey <billy at PLANETGEEK.BIZ>
wrote:

>I have not upgraded to the recent version just because I don't want to
screw
>it up.  I plan on rebuilding the machine in the beginning of the year
>though.
>
>Here is my entry in the conf file:
>Spam List = # ORDB-RBL spamcop.net spamhaus.org # MAPS-RBL+ costs money
>(except
>.ac.uk)
>
># If an individual "Spam List" or "Spam Domain List" check takes longer
># that this (in seconds), the check is abandoned and the timeout noted.
>Spam List Timeout = 40 # was 10
>
># The maximum number of timeouts caused by any individual "Spam List" or
># "Spam Domain List" before it is marked as "unavailable". Once marked,
># the list will be ignored until the next automatic re-start (see
># "Restart Every" for the longest time it will wait).
># This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
>Max Spam List Timeouts = 7
>
>
>Is that the correct one?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Venkata Achanta [mailto:vachanta at GMAIL.COM]
>Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 5:56 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Mailscanner Spamassassin timing out
>
>Billy,
>
>What version of spamassasin are you running ?
>
>Did you recently upgrade SA and MS ?
>
>Try to bump timeout to 60-80 and see what happens.
>
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SpamAssassin Timeout = 120

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