On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:48:08AM +0100, Gilles Hamel wrote: > Last weeks, amount of received spam increased fastly. Now, our spamassassin > server is becomming I/O bound to manage bayes and whitelist berkeley db. > Spamassassin wiki suggests to stop using bayes, but it is not an acceptable > solution here.
I don't think there's a lot of optimizations that you can do to BDB. You may want to consider switching to SQL. I'm not sure why the wiki suggests turning bayes off. Perhaps it's suggesting disabling auto-expire, since that tends to be the big i/o suck. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: "Apres moe le deluge" - Larry and Curly get wet
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