4.50.15 - Big problems on FreeBSD / exim

[Julian Field]

TCIS List Acct wrote:
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> Julian Field wrote:
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>> I have just released a new beta 4.50.12. See the Change Log for all  
>> the details, it's getting pretty long this month.
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>> 1 particular feature I would like you to test for me: please set
>>     Virus Scanners = auto
>> and see what it does.
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>> Thanks guys!
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> We upgraded to 4.50.15 (from 4.47.4, which has been running fine) last 
> night on our (4) MailScanner boxes.  They are running FreeBSD 4.9 (a 
> few 4.10) with 2GB of RAM and (1) 36GB 15KRPM SCSI drive.  We run exim 
> as the MTA (version 4.34) with a split spool.  We use 3 different A/V 
> scanners (mcafee, f-prot, and kaspersky) and have SpamAssassin 3.1.0 
> installed w/Perl 5.8.2.  We load balance the incoming load via 
> multiple DNS A-records, which has always worked fine.
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> Anyway, after the upgrade, performance went down big time, and all of 
> the boxes eventually died with an "out of swap space" type message (I 
> did check that the disk has plenty of free space after a hard reboot 
> to get the box back up and responsive).  I'm still investigating 
> (we've reverted back to 4.47.4 and are working our way through the 
> 80,000 message backlog) but I thought I would report it ASAP.
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> I did have the new SpamAssassin caching turned on, but other than 
> that, I did not make any changes to my MailScanner.conf compared to 
> the previous version.  I did install the latest DBI and DBD::SqlLite 
> via CPAN without a problem.
The only thing I can think of is the SpamAssassin cache. Try switching 
it off and see if performance improves.

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