Re: spamd keeps running at 99% CPU until i kill the process

Hi,

Richard Hobbs wrote:
> Hello,

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>>>
>>> Is this all correct?
>> Yes.  Set up expiration in a cron job, once per day is usually fine.

Yup! This is my crontab line:

00 22 * * * /usr/local/bin/sa-learn --force-expire

>
> Also, how do i disable automatic expiration?

Set:

bayes_auto_expire 0

In your local.cf file.

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>
> 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.
>>
>>

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