At 09:44 AM 1.22.2004 -0800, Douglas Kirkland wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Thursday 22 January 2004 07:53, Jack L. Stone wrote: >> Perhaps this question needs to be directed to Theo Van Dinter who most >> likely knows the answer I need. My server is going down frequently and has >> been traced to SA. >> >> Yesterday I posted a question about a perl5 function breaking and >> apparently doing so on just about every message processed by SA. It is so >> bad that it is causing my mail server to crash/reboot -- twice last night. >> >> The time to process a message jumped to over 30 secs from the usual 1 sec >> or less. I don't use rbls, so it's not related to any outside server >> services. -- a 30x jump! >> >> I spent the whole day yesterday tracing the problem and finally to the >> auto_whitelist DB -- which appeared to be creating numerous lock files and >> leaving them there after each break in the process. The PIDs were compared >> to those being displayed in top when the perl500503 processes (numerous) >> appeared. They were the same that were appended to the lock files left >> behind in /root/.spamassassin. > > >I would upgrade perl for spamassassin to at least 5.6X. You should also clean >out the white list DB. See if you have the problem with a fresh WhiteList >DB. > > >Douglas
>From what I have read, we don't meed to move up on perl (perl5.8x) until SA-2.70 is released. But, Douglas, your suggestion to clean out the white list DB seems to have fixed it for now. It had grown to just short of 2MB, which I didn't think was all that large. The errors are gone and the message thru-put time has dropped back to 1 sec or less for over 30 secs.... Thanks for the tip! Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator Sage American http://www.sage-american.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- 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
