Hello Matt, Friday, July 25, 2003, 8:53:28 AM, you wrote:
MK> How much memory does your system have? MK> Bayes can be a pretty substantial memory hog.. I found out what the problem was - just thought I would share it. What happens is that I use procmail to catch spam from some spam-trap addresses on our server and feed this to a file for sa-learn. Every night, a cron job runs sa-learn. Well, what happened is that the Bayes file got rather large, and the cron job ran out of memory after learning, but before running the untie, unlock, & expire routines needed to complete the job. I found this by rerunning the sa-learn job in -D mode and catching the out of memory error; I've fixed it now. I wanted to mention it though in case anyone else runs into this problem, as there was no specific error message. The presence of the extra bayes_toks.new file in the directory as well as a .lock file were the clues -- apparently the .new file is something created temporarily which would ordinarily be deleted once the sa-learn process completed. Anyway, thanks for your help - the other suggestions you made are useful to me in any event, as it is obvious I need to be careful with memory use on my system. -Abigail ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
