On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 07:55:40AM -0700, Loren Wilton wrote: > >The load average always hovers around 20.0 and top shows spamd is > >culprit. Also, I have trained over 10,000 each of spam and ham and also > > You probably have too many spamd children running. With only 512M you > probably want 5 children or less.
We both have added 512 Mb more immediately and also reduced -m 10 to -m 5 /var/bayes has, -rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd spamd 17M Sep 21 12:07 bayes_journal -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21M Sep 20 22:25 bayes_seen -rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd spamd 5.2M Sep 20 22:25 bayes_toks Will reducing it to -m 5 make the mail delivery slow? With warm regards, -Payal > > >Sometimes when there is heavy load we get in logs, > >Cannot open bayes databases /var/bayes/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File > >exists > > Lock timeout, some message didn't get a bayes score. This is a side effect > of the high load average. > > Loren >
