On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 09:31 -0700, Loren Wilton wrote: > > Is there something I should/could do about these expiry runs? It seems > > odd that it's been like this for a couple of days now... How could I > > know that this was the issue? > > Um, this isn't my area of expertise. I suspect Matt or Justin will be along > with a workable suggestion fairly soon. I'm pretty sure that there is some > logging to indicate when an expiry run happens, but I don't know precisely > what to look for.
OK, I'll look for that. > At least with bayes there is a way you can turn off the auto-expire and then > use a cron job to schedule a manual expiry once a day/week/whatever. I'm > not sure if similar functionality exists for awl. I don't know either. > Did you happen to notice if all of your spamd children get fat at once, or > if just one of them got really huge? All of them gettiing big might > indicate something changed with your rules files. A single fat child would > be more indicitave of an expiry run. > > Loren It didn't really look like any of them were really fat... The machine's drives just started hammering and the load average shot up. It's all cleared up now after a reboot. Thomas
