On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Martin Svensson wrote:

As I mentioned in my first email the total number of email/day hasn't changed and the config is the same. We even wiped the whole bayes database and within 12 hours the I/O wait and average load on the database server were much higher than usual - and 12 hours of bayes data isn't that many rows.

My first response to those symptoms as a DBA is to ask, is there a missing (or disabled) index? It sounds like full table scans rather than proper indexed lookups.

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