> The first time I encountered this problem is when the spam database has > around 3000 SPAM and about 10000 HAM, the database seems to become > corrupt. I start to receive PERL errors. > ... > Is there a problem with the database when it > reaches a certain size?
I can't offer much assistance with your problem, but on the db size, I can say that we were running it with around 25k spams and 25k hams learned, with sa-learn running on shared imap folders every hour adding more. This was with SA 2.70-cvs. We just upgraded to 3.1.0 and converted the bayes and whitelist databases to MySQL. Spamd and MySQL now run on a dedicated server which is accessed by spamc on our smtp/incoming MX and sa-learn on our pop/imap server. Our setup is a little complex, but it works very well. St-