Hello, Anthony Peacock wrote: > Hi, > > Richard Hobbs wrote: >> Hello, >> >> John D. Hardin wrote: >>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Richard Hobbs wrote: >>> >>>> Could the size of "bayes_seen" and "bayes_toks" be causing this >>>> timeout? >>> Yes. >>> >>>> If so, what can i do about this? >>> Disable automatic Bayes expiry and do a manual expiration run, and >>> allow it to complete. >> >> So what you (and Michael Parker) are saying is that it's not the >> checking of spam against the tokens that is causing the timeout, it's >> the automatic expiration of old tokens that "conveniently" gets tagged >> onto the same operation, right? >> >> If so, let me get this straight - an email comes in and goes off to >> spamd. spamd then checks the message against the tokens to determine >> whether it's spam or not, then runs an expiry of old tokens (or perhaps >> it happens the other way around), and only then returns the mail to >> exim. The expiration of old tokens takes a lot longer than the spam >> checking and as a result it's timing out. >> >> So, if i disable automatic expiration, spamd will only attempt one >> operation at a time, (checking of spam against the tokens) and should >> therefore not timeout, correct? >> >> But, if i do disable automatic expiration, i will have to remember to do >> it manually, or via cron. >> >> Is this all correct? > > Yes. Set up expiration in a cron job, once per day is usually fine.
OK, will do - i assume "sa-learn --force-expire" is the command to run via cron, right? Also, how do i disable automatic expiration? Thanks again, Richard. >> Would a suitable alternative be to delete "bayes_seen" and "bayes_toks", >> then restart spamd? I know i would be deleting everything that had been >> learned over the last period of time, but starting afresh may not be a >> bad thing, seeing as the rules in the database are probably 6 months to >> a year old now (we've not been using spamd for a year or so, because i >> broke it and had no time to fix it!). >> >> Please let me know your thoughts, and also let me know whether deleting >> both of those files is a good way to go. > > No. > > -- Richard Hobbs (Systems Administrator) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/ Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377
