RE: [SAtalk] Bayesian Filter is rather CPU Hungry

[Rabie van der Merwe]

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Looks like it was a two fold problem, I still had a 'defang_mime 0' entry in
my sa-mimedefang.cf file, and I also setup a working dir for the bayes db's
with
permissions and set the location in the cf file, now my box is ideling away.


Regards
Rabie

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Byrnand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 31 July 2003 02:04
To: Rabie van der Merwe; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian Filter is rather CPU Hungry


At 13:04 29/07/2003 +0200, Rabie van der Merwe wrote:
>I upgraded for SpamAssassin 2.44 to 2.55 and now my box has gone from a
>loadaverage of
>about 0.5 - 2 to about 1.5 - 20+ and I am running a dual 2.4G Zeon Proliant
>ml350 with
>2Gb of ram and 4 36Gb Raid 0+1.
>
>Looking at vmstat and other I can see that the CPU is being nailed, the
disk
>I/O is low.
>
>So I stopped did a use_bayes 0 and now my CPU util is back to normal.
>Is this normal??
>I block about 4300-4500 mails in 24 hours so that's about 180 - 190 mails
>per hour.

Make sure you've got DB_File installed (via CPAN) as any of the other types
of database that SA will drop back to using, such as GDBM etc do not scale
up and are grossly inefficient, with very high resource use.

If you do install DB_File you'll find you have to delete your bayes
database and let it start again.

Regards,
Simon


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