Mail server backlogging - seems like a Bayes problem

[Julian Field]

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At 20:18 22/10/2004, you wrote:
>At 04:28 PM 10/21/2004, Julian Field wrote:
>> >Any chance MS is timing SA out and killing it repeatedly? (this can happen
>> >if SA does expiry and it takes too long for MailScanner's rather absurdly
>> >short default timeout).
>>
>>What timeout would you consider less "absurd"?
>
>Well, the default is 40 seconds. Way too short given SA's tendency to
>wander off and do some DB maintenance (journal sync, expiry, etc) whenever
>it feels the need.
>
>As I said in the previous mail, I'd consider 60 seconds a bare minimum, but
>even that will result in quite a few timeouts if the auto expire feature
>isn't turned off. Perhaps 90 would be better.
>
>I use 120 seconds AND I have auto expire off.
>(/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf:bayes_auto_expire 0)

Matt,

Thanks for that. I originally kept the timeout short as genuine SA timeout
problems did cause difficulty when I first implemented. But SA has improved
enormously since I first supported it, and I suspect you are right that it
is now time to increase the timeout quite a bit. The last increase I did
was from 30 to 40 seconds so SA had a chance to timeout DNS lookups before
it could be totally killed by MailScanner.

Thanks for your opinion, as ever :-)
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Julian Field
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