thanks, will let it be the time being. Great program BTH, been using it for years and this is the first issue.
best eric Eric Smith Senior Network Administrator | Tech Soft 3D http://www.techsoft3d.com skype: eric_ae_smith phone: 510-333-1729 Build with the Best On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Mark Martinec wrote: > Eric, > >> humm, yes that looks like a candidate but no change in that either and no >> new package as well. Why monday and not the many months before? I know, >> too dang general of a question to ask, when I have the time I will try to >> get it to fail while I am looking at it with logs set to debug. In the >> mean time I will keep the setting $enable_db set to 0. > > Or try upgrading libdb to a more recent version - we are now at 5.2.36 > (not to forget reinstalling BerkeleyDB perl module when libdb is changed). > >> Question, what downside is there not using berkeleyDB? >> >> amavisd_nanny will not work, is there any other performance issues that >> I should worry about? > > None other than amavisd_nanny, amavisd-agent and amavisd-snmp-subagent > will not be able to get their information. Btw, I'm working on an > alternative to bdb - the ZeroMQ message passing library. My primary > motive was to avoid lock contention on updating a database, which > has serious performance implications when there are lots of amavisd > child processes running, especially when spam checks are disabled. > Looks like a way to go, it's very fast! > > Mark
