Matt Kettler wrote:
Derek Catanzaro wrote:
I have been having issues with mail backing up on and off over the
past week. I am using MailScanner with SpamAssassin. This morning
for example, I had roughly 500 messages waiting in
/var/spool/mqueue.in and that number had increased to about 2200 in
less than an hour. I then tell MailScanner to stop using SpamAssassin
to try and identify if the problem is with SpamAssassin or not and now
I'm back down to less than 50 messages waiting in the queue in less
than a matter of 10 -15 minutes. So obviously this tells me something
is going on with SpamAssassin.
I ran "spamassassin --lint -D" and I did not notice any problems with
the output other than a dcc timeout. Then again, spamassassin has
always worked well for me so I may be missing something in the output
because I have really never had to troubleshoot this kind of issue
with spamassassin. The recent changes I have made to try and combat
the problem is to disable bayes and I turned off the auto expire for
the bayes tokens just to make sure that wasn't slowing things down.
I am running a local caching name server so I do not believe this to
be a DNS timing issue. I can provide my spamassassin --lint -D output
if anyone is interested.
Fedora Core 1
SpamAssassin 3.1.0
MailScanner 4.49.7
sendmail 8.13.5
Thanks,
Derek
What's your memory load look like? (ie: run the "free" command).
Have you recently added any add-on rulesets?
Do you have a whole pile of bayes_toks files suffixed with a process ID
and "expire" laying around in your bayes directory?
Here are the results of the "free" command with spamassassin running:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2068504 2041572 26932 0 242712 60556
-/+ buffers/cache: 1738304 330200
Swap: 1831912 58544 1773368
Results of "free" command without spamassassin running:
free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2068504 1712204 356300 0 244080 73944
-/+ buffers/cache: 1394180 674324
Swap: 1831912 7172 1824740
I have not added any new rulesets for quite some time now, I only have 2
that I have added myself and it has been months since I did that.
I did have a bunch of bayes_toks.expire##### files laying around last
week; however, those have been deleted. I only have one .expire file not
and it is about 9 MB.
Thanks,
Derek
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