Spamassassin Timeout issue.

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

When spamassassin times out, it usually is because of a DNS issue.  
Restarting works in your case probably because people trying to  
connect to your server "back off" when you restart it because to them  
it looks like your server died. They take pity and don't bother it for  
a while. When they see it back online, the load and backlog rises.

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:05 AM, "Swati Meghanand" <swati.meghanand at gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> hi,
>
> I am not running any name server on the same machine, actually I am  
> having a fail-over cluster of 3 machine having same configuration/ 
> setting I facing this prob in 2 machines the another thts 3rd is  
> running smoothly...
> When I restart machine it works well for atleast 12-15 Hrs.(But  
> restarting Mailscanner didn't helped me)
>
> Did u mean this could be a DNS related issue....
>
> Regards,
>
> Swati Meghanand
>
>
> 2008/9/10 Alex Neuman van der Hans <alex at rtpty.com>
> It's actually quite clearly indicating the opposite. You are not  
> reading the logs right. If spamassassin is timing out, you need to  
> take care of that. What caching nameserver are you running on that  
> box?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 3:54 AM, "Swati Meghanand" <swati.meghanand at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using mailscanner on a busy mail gateways from serveral months,  
> which was working fine so far.From last few days I noticed incresed  
> no of spam mails as well log Filtering queues (ofcourse slow  
> processing of mailscanner).In log file of mailscanner I found  
> following lines,
>
> Sep 10 04:47:29 localhost MailScanner[11027]: Virus and Content  
> Scanning: Starting
> Sep 10 04:47:37 localhost MailScanner[8400]: SpamAssassin timed out  
> and was killed, failure 8 of 20
> Sep 10 04:47:37 localhost MailScanner[8680]: SpamAssassin timed out  
> and was killed, failure 14 of 20
> Sep 10 04:47:38 localhost MailScanner[8680]: Message 1KdL6x-0005q5- 
> L3 from xx.xx.xx.xx (xxx at xxx.x) to xxx.xx is not spam, SpamAssassin  
> (not cached, timed out)
> Sep 10 04:47:38 localhost MailScanner[8400]: Message 1KdLDG-0006se- 
> Ox from xx.xx.xx.xx (xxx at xx.xxx) to xxx.xx is not spam, SpamAssassin  
> (not cached, timed out)
>
> it clealy indicates mailscanner is not (able to) scanning messages.
>
> Any idea about this issue.
>
> Thanks in advance :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Swati Meghanand
>
>
>
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