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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by jason lingnau <he...@intuitiveisp.com> on 2007/10/09 19:17:32 UTC

SA choking?

shalom  hipsters

Running nuonce BQ machine(s) and this has been the deal with all of  
them.
At some point our filters drop.( currenly the case see below)...mail  
still gets sent as sendmail must not wait forever to hear back from MS.
My ( newbie ) self thinks spamassassitn in the culprit.

My question- how do I tell where this event is occurring.

CentOS release 4.4
This is MailScanner version 4.56.8
SpamAssassin version 3.1.7
Clamav rev ? ( from clam-sa combo install)

ps aux
root     11381  0.0  1.7 25040 18092 ?       Ss   Oct07   0:00  
MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping
root     11382  0.0  6.5 72556 66732 ?       S    Oct07   0:10  
MailScanner: waiting for messages
root     11395  0.0  6.3 70384 64564 ?       S    Oct07   0:09  
MailScanner: waiting for messages
root     11400  0.0  6.3 70860 64664 ?       S    Oct07   0:08  
MailScanner: waiting for messages
root     11410  0.0  6.3 70540 64864 ?       S    Oct07   0:08  
MailScanner: waiting for messages
root     11420  0.0  6.1 70808 62116 ?       S    Oct07   0:09  
MailScanner: waiting for messages

jason
intuitiveisp

Re: SA choking?

Posted by Richard Frovarp <Ri...@sendit.nodak.edu>.
jason lingnau wrote:
> shalom  hipsters
>
> Running nuonce BQ machine(s) and this has been the deal with all of them.
> At some point our filters drop.( currenly the case see below)...mail 
> still gets sent as sendmail must not wait forever to hear back from MS.
> My ( newbie ) self thinks spamassassitn in the culprit.
>
> My question- how do I tell where this event is occurring.
>
> CentOS release 4.4
> This is MailScanner version 4.56.8
> SpamAssassin version 3.1.7
> Clamav rev ? ( from clam-sa combo install)
>
> ps aux
> root     11381  0.0  1.7 25040 18092 ?       Ss   Oct07   0:00 
> MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping
> root     11382  0.0  6.5 72556 66732 ?       S    Oct07   0:10 
> MailScanner: waiting for messages
> root     11395  0.0  6.3 70384 64564 ?       S    Oct07   0:09 
> MailScanner: waiting for messages
> root     11400  0.0  6.3 70860 64664 ?       S    Oct07   0:08 
> MailScanner: waiting for messages
> root     11410  0.0  6.3 70540 64864 ?       S    Oct07   0:08 
> MailScanner: waiting for messages
> root     11420  0.0  6.1 70808 62116 ?       S    Oct07   0:09 
> MailScanner: waiting for messages
>
> jason
> intuitiveisp
As you can see from your output, MS is waiting for messages to show up 
to process. Sendmail doesn't wait for MailScanner. Sendmail drops each 
message off to MailScanner in a queue, MS then moves the message to an 
outgoing queue that sendmail picks up and delivers. MS starts it's own 
sendmail processes up, so perhaps your system is running its default 
sendmail bypassing MS. This is a question to be asked over on the MS list.