Slow MailScanner

[Glenn Steen]

On 14/02/07, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/02/07, Jay Chandler <chandler.lists at chapman.edu> wrote:
> (snip)
> > Nope, neither location (nor in /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/bayes, since
> > this is from the FreeBSD ports tree).
> >
> > So, getting desperate to clear the backlog, I ran sa-learn --clear on
> > the troubled box, and went to get myself a cup of coffee from the break
> > room.
> And you did this as UID/GID 125 (whatever that translates to on your
> system.... Perhaps Postfix?)?
> If not you likely cleared the wrong bayes db:-).
>
> Look for it in /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin (if you have that
> declared in MailScanner.conf) or ~/.spamassassin for the user with UID
> 125...
>
> > On the plus side, I now have coffee.  On the downside, it's still taking
> > upwards of 20 seconds per message.
> Coffee's always a good start;-).
>
> > The nameserver config is the same.  The hardware SHOULD be good-- these
> > boxes are identical, and a month old.
> >
> And they've been running some kind of load during that time? Else...
> well, insiduous HW problems are _always_ a reality...:-)
>
> Cheers
Ah, I see (from reading on in the thread:-) you are going the SQL
route, which is good. Still, one more thing... I noted the pyzor error
in your --lint... Check that the user with UID 125 has a valid setup
for that too, else that might slow things down.

Cheers
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