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

From: Richard Hobbs <richard.hobbs(at)crl.toshiba.co.uk>
Date: Wed Aug 29 2007 - 05:55:14 EDT


Hello,

Thank you - this is now done! :-)

I shall see how it goes...

Richard.

Anthony Peacock wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Richard Hobbs wrote:

>> Hello,

> <SNIP>
>
>>>>
>>>> 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?

>
> 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.
>
>>
>> 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: richard.hobbs@crl.toshiba.co.uk
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Received on Wed Aug 29 05:56:18 2007

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