On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Sammy Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We recently migrated our SpamAssassin installation from a physical 3.6 GHz system running RHEL 4 and SA 3.0.4 to a VMware VM (ESX 2.5.4) with RHEL 4 as the guest OS and SA 3.1.7. Each user has their own Bayes files (Berkeley DB) and these were copied from the old to the new server. Now whenever an expiry process runs on a user's database, the CPU spikes, sometimes for a minute or longer. We did not notice spikes on the old server, but it is really hammering the VM. Has anyone else experienced this problem? For now I have disabled Bayes altogether because of the unacceptable load.
Perhaps memory started to spill into the swap on either the VM or guest OS.
I don't know what version of VMWare you are using. I'm using v5.2.2 running under Windows. In the memory preferences I have mine set so all the virtual machine memory has to fit into the reserved host ram. I've done small tests with SA before and haven't had any problems. Then again, I haven't found anything I can use to put a load on a test install. My test bed is on a duo-core 3.2ghz with four gig of ram. The VM has a full gig of ram allocated
and is running the release version of FreeBSD 6.1.
