SpamAssassin 2.55 problem

[James Pifer]

We can try that when we try 2.55 again. We'll probably wait til the
additional memory comes in before doing it though. After we try it I'll
let the list know what happened.

Thanks,
James

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 05:30, Julian Field wrote:
> What happened if you just switched off the Bayes engine? ("use_bayes 0" in
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf)
>
> At 23:20 29/06/2003, you wrote:
> >We had this same issue this past week and had a separate thread going
> >about it. (Mail getting stuck in mqueue.in). We're running on a PIII 1.7
> >Ghz with 512 meg of RAM. With SpamAssassin 2.50.x everything was fine,
> >handling about 15K-20K messages a day with no problem. When we upgraded
> >to 2.55, very few messages would get delivered, just stuck in mqueue.in.
> >
> >If we disabled Spam Checks it would run fine. We ended up downgrading
> >back to 2.50 and we're back to normal. Of those having this problem, if
> >anyone has success with a fix/workaround, can you let me know (if not
> >the list).
> >
> >We are going to try and increase the RAM too, but it seems odd to be
> >running perfectly well with 2.50, upgrade to 2.55, and then be basically
> >dead in the water. (we did add Pyzor and Razor, but disabling them did
> >not make a difference, and they run fine with 2.50)
> >
> >Thanks,
> >James
> >
> >On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 11:11, Richard Lynch wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 10:50, Julian Field wrote:
> > > > At 15:45 29/06/2003, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >In the meantime I just wanted to establish that some people have
> > > > >SpamAssassin 2.55 working well with the latest MailScanner.
> > > >
> > > > It does work just fine, but it is a resource hog.
> > >
> > > In my experience the biggest consumer of resources is the bayes filter
> > > analysis.  You could try setting "use_bayes 0" in
> > > /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf.  The bayes stuff is nice and
> > > works well but it does consume a lot of resources.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Richard Lynch <rich at mail.wvnet.edu>
>
> --
> Julian Field
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