bayes problem locking problem ?

[Robert Mena]

Hi MailScanners :)  anyone with a solution for this ?

I've restarted spassassin but with no bayes and so far
it is running smooth (but letting all spam go
through)...


--- Eelco Wesemann <eelco at NETNATION.NL> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> No sollution, but a "same here". I've had similar
> behavour on my setup:
> sendmail+clamav+sa.
> When running MS and SA in debug mode, I noticed that
> around 50% to 80% of the
> processing time was spent on obtaining a lock on the
> bayes database.
>
> My setup:
> debian unstable, kernel 2.6.5
> sendmail-8.12.11
> MailScanner-4.30.3
> clamav-0.71
> spamassassin-2.63
>
> Max SpamAssassin Size = 30000
> Max Unscanned Bytes Per Scan = 100000000
> Max Unsafe Bytes Per Scan = 50000000
> Max Unscanned Messages Per Scan = 40
> Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan = 40
> Max Normal Queue Size = 2000
>
> Bayes magic:
> 0.000          0          2          0  non-token
> data: bayes db version
> 0.000          0     163094          0  non-token
> data: nspam
> 0.000          0      13224          0  non-token
> data: nham
> 0.000          0     435207          0  non-token
> data: ntokens
> 0.000          0 1084290758          0  non-token
> data: oldest atime
> 0.000          0 1085525323          0  non-token
> data: newest atime
> 0.000          0 1085525334          0  non-token
> data: last journal sync atime
> 0.000          0 1084784968          0  non-token
> data: last expiry atime
> 0.000          0     345600          0  non-token
> data: last expire atime delta
> 0.000          0     189064          0  non-token
> data: last expire reduction count
>
> Would putting the bayes dirs in tmpfs increase the
> speed of the locking of the
> bayes-databases by SA?
>
> Regards,
>
> Eelco
>
> Robert Mena wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I replaced my exim+rav setup sunday with a
> > exim+ms+clamav+sa.  Everything was ok, the load
> was
> > higher but the flow of the messages seemed smooth.
> >
> > Today I've noticed that the exim.in queue grew up
> to
> > 8000 messages.  In the two previous days it never
> > exceeded 500.  The out queue was higher yesterday
> (up
> > to 10K messages) despite the smoother behaviour so
> It
> > does not seem an attack or increased volume of
> > incoming spam.
> >
> > After I've switched off the spamassassin (still
> > mailscanner + clamav) the exim.in queue went from
> 8K
> > to 0 in a matter of minutes.
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
> > My setup
> > - Linux Fedora Core 1 - kernel
> 2.4.22-1.2188.nptlsmp
> > - mailscanner-4.30.3-2
> > - spamassassin-2.63-1
> > - exim 4.32
> > - clamav-0.70
> >
> > My General Configuration setup looks like this:
> >
> > Max SpamAssassin Size = 30000
> > Max Unscanned Bytes Per Scan = 0
> > Max Unsafe Bytes Per Scan = 50000000
> > Max Unscanned Messages Per Scan = 0
> > Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan = 100
> > Max Normal Queue Size = 5000
> >
> > My sa-learn dump:
> > 0.000          0          2          0  non-token
> > data: bayes db version
> > 0.000          0       8856          0  non-token
> > data: nspam
> > 0.000          0       8072          0  non-token
> > data: nham
> > 0.000          0     357214          0  non-token
> > data: ntokens
> > 0.000          0 1000210340          0  non-token
> > data: oldest atime
> > 0.000          0 1085521354          0  non-token
> > data: newest atime
> > 0.000          0 1085521390          0  non-token
> > data: last journal sync atime
> > 0.000          0 1085409209          0  non-token
> > data: last expiry atime
> > 0.000          0     852711          0  non-token
> > data: last expire atime delta
> > 0.000          0          0          0  non-token
> > data: last expire reduction count
>
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