SA Timeouts

[Julian Field]

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No, the MailScanner-driven bayes rebuild in older versions did not lock
out the other child processes successfully. In 4.40.5 this is fixed.

What you can do is do the rebuild/expiry from a cron job at 3 in the
morning.

Jim Coates wrote:

>Julian,
>
>Will doing what Martin suggested help this?
>
>"Sounds like SA is trying to tidy the bayes DB and timing out...
>
>make sure the following is set in MailScanner.conf
>
># If you are using the Bayesian statistics engine on a busy server, # you
>may well need to force a Bayesian database rebuild and expiry # at regular
>intervals. This is measures in seconds. # 1 day = 86400 seconds. # To
>disable this feature set this to 0. Rebuild Bayes Every = 86400
>
># The Bayesian database rebuild and expiry may take a 2 or 3 minutes # to
>complete. During this time you can either wait, or simply # disable
>SpamAssassin checks until it has completed. Wait During Bayes Rebuild = yes
>
>
>and in spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>
># MailScanner: When using the scheduled Bayes expiry feature, you probably #
>MailScanner: want to turn off auto-expiry as it will rarely complete before
># MailScanner: it is killed for taking too long. You will just end up with #
>MailScanner: big bayes_toks.new files wasting space. # bayes_auto_expire 0"
>
>
>Thanks,
>Jim Coates
>Laridian, Inc.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Julian Field
>Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:02 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: SA Timeouts
>
>
>I have hopefully fixed the bayes expiry problems in the latest beta of
>MailScanner. You will have to download and install that for the fix for this
>one. Or else put up with it until 1st April, when I will do the next stable
>release.
>
>Jim Coates wrote:
>
>
>
>>Julian,
>>
>>They are all "bayes_toks.expire#####" files.
>>
>>Just today, I've had 103 of them (since midnight CST).
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>Behalf Of Julian Field
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:33 AM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: SA Timeouts
>>
>>
>>What are the filenames of a few of them?
>>
>>Jim Coates wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Sure am...
>>>
>>>Jim Coates
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>>Behalf Of Julian Field
>>>Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 10:51 AM
>>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>>Subject: Re: SA Timeouts
>>>
>>>
>>>Are you getting loads of stuff left in /root/.spamassassin/bayes* ?
>>>
>>>Jim Coates wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello all;
>>>>
>>>>I recently upgraded SpamAssassin to 3.01 and have started having
>>>>timeout issues.
>>>>
>>>>MailScanner's header report shows "X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam,
>>>>SpamAssassin (timed out)"
>>>>
>>>>I've been watching the CPU and memory utilization and it doesn't seem
>>>>to be that the server is having its resources eaten up, so I'm not
>>>>really sure what's causing it.
>>>>
>>>>I increased the spam check timeouts to 60 (they were 40 by default),
>>>>but that doesn't seem to have corrected the problem.
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas as to what might be causing this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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