Hi,
I've got a mailserver dealing with a moderate amount of mails... Say about
20k mails a day.
The setup has a spamassassin 3.4.2 with a mysql database for bayes and to
do a minimum of logging.
I've recently seen a lot of mail scans not completing due to running out
of time. The message I am seeing most often is "check: exceeded time limit
in Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check::_eval_tests_type11_prineg90_set3,
skipping further tests". This is happening for abour 5% of incoming mail.
I am trying to understand what exactly is going on here?
It seems that this is happening since I moved bayes to a local mysql
database to resolve locking problems I saw in the logs with the on-disk
files. I previously had configured spamd to run with --timeout-child=30
which now seems too small.
Having looked at the code of SA I understand that this string is built
using the following variables:
$package_name."::_".$ruletype."_tests_".$clean_priority;
But that does not really help me understand _what_ is taking that long and
how I can improve the spamassassin runtime.
Any ideas?
thanks,
Andreas
