Hello, Could the size of "bayes_seen" and "bayes_toks" be causing this timeout?
====================================================================== mail:/home/spamcheck/.spamassassin# ls -l total 101060 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 2637824 2007-08-28 12:42 auto-whitelist -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 6 2007-02-27 16:35 auto-whitelist.mutex -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 56 2007-08-28 12:52 bayes.lock -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 6 2007-02-27 16:33 bayes.mutex -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 10530816 2007-08-28 11:11 bayes_seen -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 83738624 2007-08-28 12:52 bayes_toks -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 1298432 2007-02-27 18:14 bayes_toks.expire1698 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 1327104 2007-02-28 02:17 bayes_toks.expire17474 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 2473984 2007-02-28 02:31 bayes_toks.expire17865 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 1302528 2007-02-28 02:48 bayes_toks.expire17866 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 1335296 2007-02-28 03:17 bayes_toks.expire18715 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 2572288 2007-02-28 03:37 bayes_toks.expire19618 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 655360 2007-02-28 09:19 bayes_toks.expire28928 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 1302528 2007-08-28 10:14 bayes_toks.expire3058 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 1302528 2007-08-28 10:34 bayes_toks.expire3059 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 1298432 2007-02-27 17:33 bayes_toks.expire31684 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 1302528 2007-02-27 18:42 bayes_toks.expire31685 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 5017600 2007-08-28 11:08 bayes_toks.expire4625 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 5013504 2007-08-28 12:35 bayes_toks.expire7150 -rw------- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 5013504 2007-08-28 12:52 bayes_toks.expire7925 -rw-r--r-- 1 spamcheck spamcheck 1175 2005-07-20 14:23 user_prefs mail:/home/spamcheck/.spamassassin# ====================================================================== If so, what can i do about this? Thanks again, Richard. Richard Hobbs wrote: > Hello, > > Mark Martinec wrote: >> Richard, >> >>> To add information to this problem, it appears that spamd does >>> eventually give up after 5 minutes >> Capture a message causing touble from a MTA queue, >> and feed it to a command line spamassassin with -t -D options. > > I would love to do this, but it's not the same messages all the time - > in a batch of identical messages, some get through and others cause the > hanging. It seems to be completely random. > > Do you have any other ideas? > > Thanks again, > Richard. > -- Richard Hobbs (Systems Administrator) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/ Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377