Yeah, I forgot that part all right. The SA process (task) maxes out the cpu for a while, then seems to go idle until the smtp session times out. This creates a backlog that snowballs. Not quite so bad on a small domain, but very severe with higher volumes.
Jared Markell wrote: > You forgot about the part where things start to hang and your system tasks > start to count in numbers.. and for me, at about 350+ tasks, performance > degrades VERY badly, resulting in "user unknown" errors when users try to > log in via pop3, or when connecting smtp servers try to deliver a message. > > In a nutshell, Bayes getting corrupt = many many phone calls "Wtf?!?" to me > :( > > At any normal given point in time, my server should run at 140~ tasks at one > time, so 300+ is bad. :) > > That's when I started upping my max children to hopefully scan more emails > at a time, but that actually worked against me, causing Bayes to get corrupt > much faster and thus clog things up much faster. > > Jared > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric "Shubes" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:25 PM > To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] bayes getting corrupt > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> BTW What is the effect of your corruption? > > Message: > > 2006-10-18 23:18:40.093043500 [30369] warn: bayes: cannot open bayes > databases /home/vpopmail/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists > > appears repeatedly in spamd log. The message is accepted ok (received in > recipient's inbox), but the SMTP session terminates abnormally so the > sending server resends the message, resulting in duplicates. > > That's pretty much all I've determined at this point. Suggestions? > >> I do sa-learn --sync once per hour and haven't any problem (yet? :-P ) >> >> >>> Would this be a good reason to use the MySQL Bayes storage engine? >>> >>> Q >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:45:31 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote: >>>> Jared Markell wrote: >>>>> Does anyone else have the problem of the Bayes database getting >>>>> corrupt very often? My database has problems quite frequently, I >>>>> usually have to delete the .spamassassin folder once every 3 days, >>>>> and the only way to keep the server stable is just to disable Bayes >>>>> checking all together. >>>>> However, Bayes helps a lot and I would like to keep it if I could >>>>> trust it not to corrupt and clog up the email server. >>>>> >>>>> Anyone else have these problems and/or have a solution? >>>>> >>>>> *Jared * >>>>> ** >>>> I have this problem too. I've been renaming .spamassassin when it >>>> starts happening, so I have the old files to do some diagnostics >>>> with. I simply haven't gotten around to it, but would like very much to > get it fixed. >>>> It seems to be ok until the point where tokens are due to expire. >>>> I'm guessing that the expiration process has a problem, but don't >>>> rightly know. >>>> >>>> Any cdb gurus here, or does anyone know of a fix in this area? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -Eric 'shubes' >>>> -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
