Spam Assasin Timeouts

[Gareth]

I scan about 1000 messages per day and get about 1-3 timeouts. I do run
lots of additional rules though.

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 12:43, Paul Houselander (SME) wrote:
> Hi List
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> I get a few complaints from users that Spam has got through, quite
> often when I investigate the message I can see in the logs that that
> SpamAssassin timed out and therefore scored zero.
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> Looking at logwatch an average day I would see
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> 20166 messages Scanned by MailScanner
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> 170 SpamAssassin timeout(s)
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> Im just after tips as to how to troubleshoot/minimize timeouts,
> sometimes ive managed to get a copy of the message and ran spamassasin
> –t –D < message and it works and scores fine, I don’t think its down
> to load as the load average rarely goes above 3.00 on this server. I
> also run a caching name server
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> Ive also tried upping the SpamAssasin timeout from 60 to 120? 
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> Any other tips? I was thinking perhaps an option if spamassasin times
> out the message could be put back in mqueue.in for a further attempt
> to scan the message?
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> Kind Regards
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> Paul
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