4.50.15 - Big problems on FreeBSD / exim

[Martin Hepworth]

Another thing that might have got you is permission on the new SA cache.

Make sure the exim user (mailnull????) can write to the file and directory.
I *think* it gets created by the install routine, but that may be for the
wrong user of you run an MTA like exim or PF that doesn't normally run as
root.

I'm running all this on FBSD no problems..

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Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: 06 February 2006 16:51
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: 4.50.15 - Big problems on FreeBSD / exim
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> 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.
> >>
> >> 1 particular feature I would like you to test for me: please set
> >>     Virus Scanners = auto
> >> and see what it does.
> >>
> >> Thanks guys!
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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