Bayes disk space usage fast increase

[Martin.Hepworth]

Fabien

Where's the file space use in /var? it is in the bayes area?

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Fabien GARZIANO
> Sent: 16 May 2007 10:39
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Bayes disk space usage fast increase
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm stuck on an issue with my MailScanner mail gateway, actually with
> the bayesian database. I don't use any database so my bayesian files
are
> on my /var FS. Since 2 days, disk space usage is fastly increasing and
> I'll soon be short of disk space. As far as I can see in logs, I don't
> find any explanation about this. I've looked in the FAQ on the
website,
> and I don't see any thing like this.
> I've checked
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BayesFaq?highlight=%28bayes%29
> I've also tried to look in the mail archive but without success.
>
> My baysian files are in the default dir =>
> /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin
>
> [root at califw3 spamassassin]# pwd
> /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin
> [root at califw3 spamassassin]# du -h
> 731M    .
>
> [root at califw3 MailScanner]# spamassassin -D --lint
> debug: SpamAssassin version 3.0.5
> [...]
> debug: bayes: 19794 tie-ing to DB file R/O
> /root/.spamassassin/bayes_toks
> debug: bayes: 19794 tie-ing to DB file R/O
> /root/.spamassassin/bayes_seen
> debug: bayes: found bayes db version 3
> debug: bayes: Not available for scanning, only 0 spam(s) in Bayes DB <
> 200
> debug: bayes: 19794 untie-ing
> debug: bayes: 19794 untie-ing db_toks
> debug: bayes: 19794 untie-ing db_seen
>
> Now, that's weird, cause I received some spam this morning, and bayes
> scored them.
>
> For information :
> [root at califw3 MailScanner]# MailScanner -v
> Running on
> Linux califw3.caliseo.fr 2.6.16-1.2108_FC4 #1 Thu May 4 23:52:01 EDT
> 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> This is Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz)
> This is Perl version 5.008006 (5.8.6)
> This is MailScanner version 4.53.8
>
> Is this behaviour usual ? I've been runnig this gateway for 1 year
now,
> and that's the first time I got something like this. Anyone met this
> behaviour already ?
> Is there a way to limit bayes space usage ?
>
> Thanks !
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