Mqueue getting huge - MailScanner problem

[Marco Benton]

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Venkata Achanta wrote:

| Thanks Marco,that worked!
|
| But i am not sure why we invited the problem ? Is there a permanent
| fix for this ? Will this be a recurring issue ? Do i have to cron a
| script to blow away the lock files and rebulid bayes DB every hour
| or something ?
|
| we upgraded from 2.64 to 3.01 spamassassin and MailScanner to
| version 4.35.11.1
|
| What might have possibly went wrong or is everyone else seeing
| this?
|
| also we moved the bayes_path from /root/.spamassasin to
| /etc/MailScanner/bayes (Yes we are using mailwatch for stats)
|
| Any pointers would be much appreciated.


i found that killing SA when it was in the process of writing to the
dB can leave a lock hanging around.  you can try using the "journal"
feature which writes updates to the journal 1st before  updating bayes dB.

which brings up another problem i noticed, on busy servers sometimes
trying to stop MS a few processes are left running.  i usually grow
impatient and run the stop command again (which kills them) but i'm
concerned that it may interfere with MS starting again?

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Marco Benton - BOFH, BSMFH
Network Consultant
Phone: (774) 808-4051
Fax  : (508) 519-6033

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mistook operator's tie for a backup tape.

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