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Julian Field wrote:

> Kevin Miller wrote:
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>> Julian Field wrote:
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>>> Kevin Miller wrote:
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>>>> Julian Field wrote:
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>>>>> Why are you rebuilding the Bayes db from MailScanner and from cron?
>>>>> You should do either 1 or the other. I would recommend (of course)
>>>>> doing it from MailScanner.conf, so just comment out your crontab
>>>>> entry.
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>>> Well, I was having the lock file troubles so I added the cron job
>>>> yesterday to see if it would make any difference and forgot to turn
>>>> it off in MailScanner.  Senior moment I guess.  I'll kill it and see
>>>> how things go over the weekend.
>>>> Should I leave the wait on?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> The wait only applies to MailScanner's rebuilds, it has no effect on
>>> your cron job's operation.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I understand that.  If I kill the cron job, and leave the 
>> rebuild at
>> 86400, should the wait be enabled?  Default is no, but in this case what
>> does wisdom dictate?
>>  
>>
> It depends a bit on the mail traffic through your site. If the rebuild 
> takes a long time, then you probably want to continue delivering while 
> it goes on (wait=no). If it only takes a minute or two, and your 
> server can catch up fairly quickly, you probably want to wait for it 
> to complete (wait=yes).
>
> I would go for wait=yes and change it if it causes a problem. 
> Otherwise spam will get through during the rebuild.
>
Hi Julian,

on a related note, is the 'minute or two' rebuild process  a CPU bound 
task ? I have a dual PII-450 machine and it takes 3 minutes plus to 
rebuild the database (I'd assume this is a single threaded task ?). Will 
this improve if I move my mail server to a P4 1.6ghz for example ? are 
you aware of any benchmarks for this spamassassin rebuild ?


Cheers,


Brian.

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