Spamassassin times out sometimes

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Tue Feb 22 13:25:19 GMT 2005


Joakim

this is normally a load/timing issue. Since I moved from my 600mhz
celeron to a 2.8ghz pIV I don't see these anymore.

What extra rules are you running, besides the stock SA ones?
What Version of SA and MS?
What tuning have you applied to the O/S, config, etc?

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Joakim Cefalk wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Since January SA times out sometimes, I have tried too search in the
> archive and the only sugestion i found was to set rbl_checks 1 but this
> is not helping me.
>
>  From my logfile
>
> Feb 22 13:43:24 linux sendmail[21410]: j1MChLOl021410:
> from=<owner-mailscanner at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>, size=3382, class=-30, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<20050222123228.GE20387 at pert.com.ar>, bodytype=8BITMIME,
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=smtp.jiscmail.ac.uk [130.246.192.55]
> Feb 22 13:43:24 linux MailScanner[21404]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> messages, 3884 bytes
> Feb 22 13:44:04 linux MailScanner[21404]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
> killed, failure 1 of 20
> Feb 22 13:44:06 linux MailScanner[21404]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> Feb 22 13:44:08 linux MailScanner[21404]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
> Feb 22 13:44:09 linux sendmail[21426]: j1MChLOl021410:
> to=<joakim at CEFALK.COM>, delay=00:00:46, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local,
> pri=177382, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> Feb 22 13:50:17 linux sendmail[21471]: j1MCoGIp021471:
> from=<owner-mailscanner at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>, size=3271, class=-30, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<421B2A5C.4050103 at tradoc.fr>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=smtp.jiscmail.ac.uk [130.246.192.55]
> Feb 22 13:50:19 linux MailScanner[21404]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> messages, 3785 bytes
> Feb 22 13:50:32 linux MailScanner[21404]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> Feb 22 13:50:34 linux MailScanner[21404]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
> Feb 22 13:50:34 linux sendmail[21485]: j1MCoGIp021471:
> to=<joakim at CEFALK.COM>, delay=00:00:18, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local,
> pri=177271, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>
> After a "time out" i can get a couple of messages that are scanned by SA...
>
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