On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 08:48:47PM +0100, Andreas Thienemann wrote: > > 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.
prineg90 = priority -90 = BAYES rules. So your MySQL is too slow / bad settings / not using InnoDB etc. If you want easy solution, switch database to Redis and never worry about Bayes anymore.
