bayes error

[Michael Martinell <mi...@dakotasioux.com>]

Hello.

 

I am running a qmail server with spamassassin on debian etch.  This setup
has been running fine for several months, however in the last few days mail
has became extremely slow.  I found this in the log (mail.warn): 

spamd[5050]: pyzor: check failed: internal error

spamd[8040]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases
/home/spamassassin/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists

 

These entries repeat consistently.  I moved bayes.lock and a message was
quickly accepted, creating a new lock file.  As soon as the new lock file
was created the server became very slow again.  I also noticed that I have
around 400-500 bayes_toks.expire* files in /home/spamassassin/.spamassassin.
Is this something to be concerned about?

 

Also, are the following files normal in this directory?

auto-whitelist

bayes_journal

bayes.lock

bayes.lock.mail.dakotasioux.com.17237

bayes.lock.mail.dakotasioux.com.24374

bayes.lock.mail.dakotasioux.com.24687

bayes.lock.mail.dakotasioux.com.5050

bayes.lock.mail.dakotasioux.com.8040

bayes.lock.mail.dakotasioux.com.8490

bayes_seen

bayes_toks

 

If you need any additional information please let me know.

Re: bayes error

[Loren Wilton <lw...@earthlink.net>]

Very probably a mail message is coming in and a bayes expire is trying to run.  This ends up taking too long, the spamd child gets killed, the mail goes through unscored, and then process repeats with the next child.

Turn off bayes_auto_expire and do a manual expire run to get things cleaned up.  Then schedule the expire as a cron job.  Once a day is enough for most people, but depending on mail volume you may have to do more than one run a day on a really busy site.  It doesn't sound like you are in that category since things ran fine for months.

        Loren
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Martinell 
  To: users@spamassassin.apache.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:32 AM
  Subject: bayes error


  Hello.

   

  I am running a qmail server with spamassassin on debian etch.  This setup has been running fine for several months, however in the last few days mail has became extremely slow.  I found this in the log (mail.warn): 

  spamd[5050]: pyzor: check failed: internal error

  spamd[8040]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/spamassassin/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists

   

  These entries repeat consistently.  I moved bayes.lock and a message was quickly accepted, creating a new lock file.  As soon as the new lock file was created the server became very slow again.  I also noticed that I have around 400-500 bayes_toks.expire* files in /home/spamassassin/.spamassassin.  Is this something to be concerned about?

   

  Also, are the following files normal in this directory?

  auto-whitelist

  bayes_journal

  bayes.lock

  bayes.lock.mail.dakotasioux.com.17237

  bayes.lock.mail.dakotasioux.com.24374

  bayes.lock.mail.dakotasioux.com.24687

  bayes.lock.mail.dakotasioux.com.5050

  bayes.lock.mail.dakotasioux.com.8040

  bayes.lock.mail.dakotasioux.com.8490

  bayes_seen

  bayes_toks

   

  If you need any additional information please let me know.