Bayes disk space usage fast increase

[Scott Silva]

Aaron K. Moore spake the following on 5/17/2007 6:29 AM:
> Gareth wrote:
>> I would let mailscanner do it and that way it will wait until the
>> rebuild is finished. If you let spamassassin do it then you will need
>> to increase the timeout to a sufficiently long time which could cause
>> you problems in the future if a ruleset starts taking too long to run
>> and slows down your processing.    
> 
> I found that configuring SpamAssassin to store the bayes database in SQL
> increased system performance on our system.  I have disabled the
> expiration run in MailScanner, and have wrote a script that I run from
> cron that shuts down MailScanner, runs the expiration, dumps the bayes
> database, and then restarts MailScanner.
> 
> I also keep the auto-whitelist in a SQL database and have wrote a few
> custom scripts to purge unused entries.
> 
> If anyone is interested, I could probably write up some documentation
> and upload them somewhere.
> 
Sounds like good wiki fodder  ;-)


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