debugging Spammassassin

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 20:32:39 GMT 2009


2009/1/29 Ghetti, Ron <Ron.Ghetti at town.barnstable.ma.us>:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Steve
> Freegard
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:14 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: debugging Spammassassin
>
>
> Ghetti, Ron wrote:
>
>> Batch (1 message) processed in 62.04 seconds
>> Batch (1 message) processed in 61.83 seconds
>> Batch (2 messages) processed in 111.01 seconds
>> Batch (7 messages) processed in 313.62 seconds
>> Batch (9 messages) processed in 423.96 seconds
>> Batch (10 messages) processed in 719.89 seconds
>>
>> Those do not seem like fast process times to me,
>
> Those are the worst times I think I've ever seen.  When tuning systems
> I'm not happy until I have the average time to process a single message
> to <10 seconds.
>
> Generally batch performance improves the larger the batch; however in
> your case this doesn't appear to be true - with 10 messages the average
> is 72 seconds per message!
>
> I'd guess that you've got some serious breakage in SpamAssassin or in
> your DNS resolver.
>
> Find a message in your quarantine directory then run the following and
> post the output:
>
> spamassassin -D -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf <
> /path/to/quaratined/message
>
> Kind regards,
> Steve
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>
> Agreed, those process times are crazy, although those are probably
> some of the worst from yesterday.
>
> It actually went pretty quick on this message.
> Ok here it is;
>
(snip)
Please do that as the postfix user ("su - postfix -s /bin/bash", then
run the command Steve suggested), and post those results.

Cheers
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