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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.
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>>>>>>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?
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>>>>>The wait only applies to MailScanner's rebuilds, it has no effect on
>>>>>your cron job's operation.
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>>>>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 
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>>>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).
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>>>I would go for wait=yes and change it if it causes a problem. 
>>>Otherwise spam will get through during the rebuild.
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>>Hi Julian,
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>>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 ?
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>Yes, I think it is quite heavy on CPU. Haven't seen any benchmarks of 
>this at all, sorry. A 1.6Ghz box should definitely do it a lot faster 
>than a P2/450 box. The second CPU won't help you though, it's a 
>single-threaded program.
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Thanks Julian,

this thread has been very useful for me as I was previously running my 
own cron job to rebuild the database. Much neater to have MS do it for 
me and much easier for my migration as I wont have to remember that 
particular cron entry.

Cheers,

Brian.

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