I asked this a few weeks ago, with no response. What I have been able to gather is that a system wide db will work ok using a cluster of many mail servers, as long the bayes db is only being read. I have seen the bayes db create stuck lock files on just one box with 100 spamd processes running (spamd can run 100 processes with enought memory/CPU). I am guessing that autolearn and autowhitelist has very little chance of succeeding in this sort of setup, so I would suggesst:
bayes_path /path/to/nfs/global/bayes bayes_auto_learn 0 and NOT use the '-a' flag with your spamd instance. I am using ldap, so my spamd flags are: -d -m 100 -s local1 --socketpath=/var/lib/spamassassin/spamd.sock -u \ <virtmailuser> --virtual-config-dir=/path/to/nfs/spamrules/%f/%u -x (I hacked spamd so I could put indivudual user prefs in <first_letter>/<username> (e.g. /path/to/nfs/spamrules/u/user)to prevent getting 65,000+ files per directory. Gave the patch to the maintainers, but I don't think they were impressed. If anyone running SA in larger cluster environments has any other great ideas, lets hear them! I am tiring of the Habeas and DSL TOS threads. Andreas On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Rocky Olsen wrote: > Date: 15 Jan 2004 14:37:47 -0700 > From: Rocky Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Bayes NFS safe? > > I too would greatly appreciate any information - as we have 9 boxes > doing Spam scanning. Anyone tried this? > > > On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 13:31, Mike Jackson wrote: > > If you have multiple SA filtering boxes, is it safe to NFS-mount a partition > > with a system-wide Bayesian database and share it across all the boxes? In > > our setup, we have three boxes dedicated to doing SA filtering, all running > > the same version of FreeBSD, and it sure would be nice to be able to do this > > because the SQL-based Bayesian filtering doesn't quite look ready for prime > > time. > > > > Mike Jackson > > Technical Manager, efn.org > > www.efn.org > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > > _______________________________________________ > > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
