Lots of SpamAssassin timeouts today

[Jason Williams]

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Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:48 AM
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Subject: Re: Lots of SpamAssassin timeouts today

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Michele Neylon:: Blacknight.ie
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 2:41 PM
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> Subject: Re: Lots of SpamAssassin timeouts today
> 
> Jason Williams wrote:
> > Not sure if anything is going on, but I've noticed today that I have
> > been seeing a lot of SpamAssassin timeouts on my server today:
> >
> 
> It's usually DNS related or can be resolved with increasing the
timeout.
> I think it's covered in the wiki / maq somewhere
> 
> --
> Mr Michele Neylon
>
>Probably not related but there is a LOT of virus activity today. One
client
>reports:
>
>	Processed:	25,082	1.2Gb
>	Clean:	8,937		35.6%
>	Viruses:	12,945	51.6%
>
>High load can also cause SpamAssassin timeouts.
>
>Steve

Can DNS timeouts cause a higher load on the server than normal?

I've noticed a little bit higher load average than normal on the server
today?

I think a new virus came out yesterday or today. I see a lot of rejects
from cia.gov with a .exe. ClamAV picks it up as mytop of some sort.

Thanks,

Jason

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