I've recently had a server experience some really slow spam processing - I'm not sure what's going on but I notice a lot of timeouts in the mail log:
Aug 18 09:20:21 www spamd[27673]: timeout with empty $@ at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4/Mail/SpamAssassin/Timeout.pm line 182, <GEN16> line 1126. Aug 18 09:22:02 www spamd[27674]: timeout with empty $@ at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4/Mail/SpamAssassin/Timeout.pm line 182. Aug 18 09:22:02 www spamd[27675]: timeout with empty $@ at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4/Mail/SpamAssassin/Timeout.pm line 182. Aug 18 09:23:20 www spamd[27746]: bayes: _put_tokens: SQL error: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction Aug 18 09:23:27 www spamd[27675]: spamd: copy_config timeout, respawning child process after 3 messages at /usr/bin/spamd line 967. Aug 18 09:23:29 www spamd[27745]: spamd: copy_config timeout, respawning child process after 1 messages at /usr/bin/spamd line 967. Aug 18 09:24:31 www spamd[27674]: spamd: copy_config timeout, respawning child process after 3 messages at /usr/bin/spamd line 967. Aug 18 09:24:49 www spamd[27732]: child processing timeout at /usr/bin/spamd line 1084. Aug 18 09:25:02 www spamd[27730]: spamd: copy_config timeout, respawning child process after 1 messages at /usr/bin/spamd line 967. Aug 18 09:25:19 www spamd [27746]: bayes: child processing timeout at /usr/bin/spamd line 1084. Aug 18 09:26:21 www spamd[27672]: bayes: child processing timeout at /usr/bin/spamd line 1084. Aug 18 09:27:19 www spamd [27732]: spamd: copy_config timeout, respawning child process after 1 messages at /usr/bin/spamd line 967. Aug 18 09:27:19 www spamd [27746]: spamd: copy_config timeout, respawning child process after 1 messages at /usr/bin/spamd line 967. Aug 18 09:27:32 www spamd [27672]: spamd: copy_config timeout, respawning child process after 2 messages at /usr/bin/spamd line 967. Aug 18 09:27:38 www spamd [27743]: child processing timeout at /usr/bin/spamd line 1084. Aug 18 09:27:39 www spamd[27743]: child processing timeout at /usr/bin/spamd line 1084. Any suggestions? Debian linux - spamd 3.0.4 with pyzor/dcc/razor spamd running with: /usr/bin/spamd -d -D -q -x -H /etc/razor --max-children=12 --socketpath=/var/spool/spamassassin/spamd.sock -u spamd Thanks, Josh
