Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > I am downloading my messages with my Laptop in a Internet cafe, trans- > fering @home to my server and then let a filter roll over it... > > Note: I am working Off-Line (No Internet @home) > > Last weekend I was with my server @friends and conected it over ADSL to > the Internet and downloadd arround 30.000 messages from arround 10 days > since I was not in Strasbourg. > > The first 18.000 messages went fin but then "spamassassin" begun to > buging, exactly I took arround 10 minutes for each message and when I > encountered the problem it was already runnin several hours with this > problem... > It looks like spamassassin is attempting to perform a bayes expiry, and you keep killing it before it can finish. It does need to do that once in a while, and it is slow.
If you want to, you can run sa-learn --force-expire in order to make expiry run manually. If no expiry has been run recently, SA will attempt to do so during mail delivery. > How can ths be? > > ----[ command 'cd .spamassassin && ls -Al' ]---------------------------- > insgesamt 25528 > -rw------- 1 michelle.konzack private 1327104 2008-08-31 18:29 > auto-whitelist > -rw------- 1 michelle.konzack private 93840 2008-08-31 18:29 bayes_journal > -rw------- 1 michelle.konzack private 2629632 2008-08-31 18:29 bayes_seen > -rw------- 1 michelle.konzack private 20377600 2008-08-31 18:29 bayes_toks > -rw------- 1 michelle.konzack private 4718592 2008-08-30 19:46 > bayes_toks.expire30302 > -rw------- 1 michelle.konzack private 4513792 2008-08-30 20:42 > bayes_toks.expire32331 > -rw------- 1 michelle.konzack private 4517888 2008-08-31 18:29 > bayes_toks.expire7360 > -rw-r--r-- 1 michelle.konzack private 1510 2008-08-30 21:52 user_prefs > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > As you can see, I had to stop spamassassin on 2008-08-31. And even if I > move the files out of the way. "spamassassin" refus to run with normal > speed (4-6 messages per second)- > > Note: The Server is a Quad-Xeon with plenty of memory and > 10.000 RpM SCSI drives in Raid-1. > > Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening > Michelle Konzack > Systemadministrator > 24V Electronic Engineer > Tamay Dogan Network > Debian GNU/Linux Consultant > > >