On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, David B Funk wrote:
[...] > That does not sound right. I'm using sendmail+miltrassassin+spamd > and spamd children always quit when done. In other words, when my > system is not receiving any mail there is just one sendmail daemon > the miltrassassin daemon and the parent spamd daemon. thats my normal behavior too. but there are those scenarios as i described above (seldom, but happens from time to time). > Do the spamd children usually quit and only occasionaly get stuck > or are they always getting stuck? (IE is it an intermittent problem?) not allways. happens e.g , when we do a daily backup; then the i/o gets very high for maybe a hour. if its of any interest, here our statistic of latest syslog: spamstats0.4b5.pl-fixed /var/log/syslog.0 File /var/log/syslog.0 : from Nov 9 03:15:25 to Nov 16 03:12:37 Total number of emails processed by the spam filter : 258070 Number of spams : 154788 ( 59.98%) Number of clean messages : 103282 ( 40.02%) Average message analysis time : 7.95 seconds Average spam analysis time : 8.34 seconds Average clean message analysis time : 7.37 seconds Average message score : 7.27 Average spam score : 15.17 Average clean message score : -4.57 Total spam volume : 321 Mbytes Total clean volume : 468 Mbytes > Are you using Bayes? It it possible a locking problem? > (IE children waiting on a lock to update the database). > If so, be sure that you've got 'bayes_learn_to_journal' turned > on, it helps to reduce locking contention problems. bayes_learn_to_journal is and was on , at my config. regards, Matthias ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk