On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 10:14:35PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:11:17PM -0500, David wrote:
> > After installing Spamassassin onto my system, I seem to be getting lots
> > of timeout problems. I have a pretty ancient system, so perhaps this is
> > the problem.. It's a Pentium 166, 80 meg ram on a dialup connection.
>
> 1) there are some settings in SA 2.30 and better to put a timeout on DNS
> and razor queries, you should use them.
I think I'm in the category of those discussed in another thread.. I
didn't give enough information (but it was late last night).
I'm using Debian, and my SA is 2.20, Exim is 3.35 <blush>
> I use:
> check_mx_attempts 2
> check_mx_delay 1
> rbl_timeout 30
My docs mention the first two, but no rbl_timeout
>
> 2) Set this in SA's local.cf too:
> timelog_path /var/log/salogs/current/
> It will keep a trace of all the message processing and show you were
> SA got held up
This isn't mentioned in my docs, might give it a test try and see if it
works.
> 3) If you use sa-exim, you can set a timeout on the whole SA process to
> avoid those timeouts.
> http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html
I've visited your site. I was a bit overwhelmed, it seems. I was a
little hesitant about jumping into Exim 4 just yet (I believe this is a
prerequisite?)
> > As noted above, however, this message timed out at 5 minutes.. so.. what
> > timeout would affect this, and is it alterable?
>
> I'm not sure what that timeout would be in exim.
It really seems that the pipe timeout would be the one, but it defaults
to one hour, and the timeout is 5 min, the default for several of the
other timeouts.
> > Is there some way to fix this, or do I just not have enough horsepower
> > to run Spamassassin?
>
> You might a bit low