Mailscanner Spamassassin timing out

Tue Nov 30 15:43:15 GMT 2004

Billy

I'd run the sa timeout setting at least 80, prob more if you are using
RBL's and not running a local copy of the RBL DNS info.

If you are running RulesDujour take out bigevil.cf etc as it's a massive
load on RAM. use the surbl.org pluging instead.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
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Billy Pumphrey wrote:
> 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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