Package: spamassassin
Version: 3.3.2-2
Severity: normal
The update feature in /etc/default/spamassassin
CRON=1
Seems to have associating
/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin
If you happen to have compiled rules with:
sa-compile
The cron process causes extremely heavy daily load for the server
because:
After each update, it compiles the rules
In a small server this takes considerable time
=> load on server rockets after update to sky high
=> which leads to Exim/spamassassin spamd connection timeouts
=> which leads to accepting spam *daily*
SUGGESTION
Please move the cron job from /etc/cron.daily/ to /etc/cron.weekly/
for better overall effifiency[*].
[*] The bayes is already learning everyday, so it's not critical to
receive updates every day.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages spamassassin depends on:
ii libarchive-tar-perl <none>
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-1+b1
ii libnet-dns-perl 0.66-2+b2
ii libnetaddr-ip-perl 4.058+dfsg-1
ii libsocket6-perl 0.23-1+b2
ii libsys-hostname-long-perl 1.4-2
ii libwww-perl 6.03-1
ii perl 5.14.2-6
ii perl-modules [libio-zlib-perl] 5.14.2-6
Versions of packages spamassassin recommends:
ii gcc 4:4.6.1-3
ii gnupg 1.4.11-3
ii libc6-dev 2.13-21
ii libio-socket-inet6-perl 2.69-2
ii libmail-spf-perl 2.007-1
ii make 3.81-8.1
ii perl [libsys-syslog-perl] 5.14.2-6
ii re2c 0.13.5-1
ii spamc 3.3.2-2
Versions of packages spamassassin suggests:
pn libcompress-zlib-perl 2.037-1
pn libdbi-perl <none>
pn libio-socket-ssl-perl 1.53-1
pn libmail-dkim-perl <none>
pn libnet-ident-perl <none>
pn perl [libcompress-zlib-perl] 5.14.2-6
pn pyzor <none>
pn razor <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
u'/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin'
/etc/default/spamassassin changed [not included]
/etc/spamassassin/local.cf changed [not included]
/etc/spamassassin/v320.pre changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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