choked hold queue

[Simon Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: 13 September 2007 20:56
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: choked hold queue
> 
> Do this, and watch for the pauses:
> MailScanner --debug --debug-sa
> It should start printing stuff almost immediately. If there are any
> huge
> delays before it starts, that's problem which is easy to fix.
> 
> Otherwise it depends on where it pauses. The start of the output
should
> come out pretty fast and look like this:
> 
> [root at alegria qhtml]# MailScanner --debug --debug-sa
> In Debugging mode, not forking...
> SpamAssassin temp dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-
> Temp
> [21761] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all
> [21761] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG
> [21761] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.2.2
> [21761] dbg: config: score set 0 chosen.
> [21761] dbg: util: running in taint mode? no
> [21761] dbg: dns: no ipv6
> [21761] dbg: dns: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes
> [21761] dbg: dns: Net::DNS version: 0.60
> [21761] dbg: ignore: test message to precompile patterns and load
> modules
> [21761] dbg: config: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules pre
> files
> [21761] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre
> [21761] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/v310.pre
> [21761] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/v312.pre
> [21761] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/v320.pre
> [21761] dbg: config: using "/var/lib/spamassassin/3.002002" for sys
> rules pre files
> [21761] dbg: config: using "/var/lib/spamassassin/3.002002" for
default
> rules dir
> [21761] dbg: config: read file
> /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002002/updates_spamassassin_org.cf
> [21761] dbg: config: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules dir
> [21761] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
> [21761] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf
> 
> Where does it pause in the output? (As usual Ctrl-S will stop the
> output
> and Ctrl-Q will resume it).
> 
> Jules
> 
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Hi Julian,

Thanks for the response.  I eventually fixed the problem by upping the
max children from 10 to 20 so it looks as though the problem was simply
load on the system, after a service restart it happily crunched through
the hold directory and sent everything on it's merry way!

I did MailScanner --debug --debug-sa which seems to pause on 

[10112] dbg: bayes: untie-ing

The pause is for around 10 seconds, everything else seems to run through
OK.

Simon