Re: Spamassassin taking far too long to scan emails

2006-01-31 Thread Gary V
Hello Gary, Just a quick reply - I looked in /var/log/mail.log and spotted the following line that came up loads in the log file: Jan 31 17:48:12 destiny spamd[15602]: prefork: syswrite(6) failed, retrying... at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line 554. This might be my p

Re: Spamassassin taking far too long to scan emails

2006-01-31 Thread debian
Hello Gary, Just a quick reply - I looked in /var/log/mail.log and spotted the following line that came up loads in the log file: Jan 31 17:48:12 destiny spamd[15602]: prefork: syswrite(6) failed, retrying... at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line 554. This might be my pr

Re: Spamassassin taking far too long to scan emails

2006-01-31 Thread Gary V
How to flush the database? But I don't see how they can cause the problem - why they scan the email in a few seconds, then jump up into the regions of 300 seconds? A Bayes DB expire can take up to 10 minutes to complete, depending on your system and how big your bayes DB is. However, this shou

Re: Spamassassin taking far too long to scan emails

2006-01-30 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello, Have done that, spamassassin keep letting in a lot of spam, also I keep getting multipile emails from some people. Any ideas of what I can do now? Thanks! Regards - Piers Matt Kettler wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Loren, How to flush the database? But I don't see how they can cause

Re: Spamassassin taking far too long to scan emails

2006-01-29 Thread Matt Kettler
Piers Kittel wrote: > Loren, > > How to flush the database? > > But I don't see how they can cause the problem - why they scan the > email in a few seconds, then jump up into the regions of 300 seconds? A Bayes DB expire can take up to 10 minutes to complete, depending on your system and how big y

Re: Spamassassin taking far too long to scan emails

2006-01-29 Thread Piers Kittel
Loren, How to flush the database? But I don't see how they can cause the problem - why they scan the email in a few seconds, then jump up into the regions of 300 seconds? Also, spamassassin is already set to run a maximum of 5 childs. Also, swap hasn't been used at all since last server res

Re: Spamassassin taking far too long to scan emails

2006-01-28 Thread Loren Wilton
Possibly SA is trying to do a Bayes or Awl expire while processing a message, and that can take considerable time, especially if your Bayes or Awl databases have gotten very large. Possibly you are running too many children for the ram you have, and have gone into thrashing. Loren

Spamassassin taking far too long to scan emails

2006-01-28 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Recently, found a vast amount of spam was coming in, that spamassassin was supposed to kill, so had a look in the logs and found stuff like: 2006-01-28 06:52:20 1F2jwZ-0008Qr-Up SA: Debug: SAEximRunCond expand returned: '1' 2006-01-28 06:52:20 1F2jwZ-0008Qr-Up SA: Debug: check succ