Spamassassin time outs

[Mike Tremaine]

Sorry for the top post. I just wanted to add something I noticed. With
Spamassassin 3+ on a machine that gets under heavy load [runs between
1.50 -> 9.00 50,000mails/day] it seems you need to take 1 extra step
which is to set

Rebuild Bayes Every = 0

And then do the force-expire cron.

Under spamassassin 2.64 this was set to 86400 and [with all the other
standard instructions from this list] it worked fine. But with SA3+ I
was still getting 40+ timeouts per day. [Yes: bayes_auto_expire 0 in
both spam.assassin.prefs.conf and local.cf]

mgt at irondoor ~ [1] rpm -q spamassassin
spamassassin-3.0.2-1
mgt at irondoor ~ [2] rpm -q mailscanner
mailscanner-4.35.9-1


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Matt Kettler
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 9:32 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Spamassassin time outs
>
> At 12:04 PM 1/21/2005, Philip Parsons wrote:
> >Ever since we upgraded to spamassassin 3.02 in the maillog we are
> >getting a lot of
> >
> >"Spamassassin timed out and was killed, failure "
> >
> >There does not seem to be any reason for this that I can find anyone
> >got any idea's ???
>
> 1) make sure the AWL is off.. you need to do this at the spamassassin
> level, as SA 3.0's API does not respond to MailScanner's attempts to
> disable it. The extra DB overhead here can be substantial.
>
> 2) Are you using bayes? Check for "expire" files next to your bayes
> database files.. If you have those piling up, MS is timing out SA while
> it's doing bayes database expiry. Either disable bayes_auto_expire and
> run sa-learn --force-expire from a cronjob, or extend your spamassassin
> timeout to a really large value.
>
> 3) SA 3.0 queries a lot more RBLs.. run spamassassin --lint -D and see
> if it's getting hung up there.
>
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