speedup mystery

[Paul <li...@pote.com>]

Hi -

Something odd just happened with my SA 3.0.2 setup -- I wonder if this 
sounds like a recognizable symptom of something?

Ever since installation, my average scantime has been 15-45 seconds per 
message. The scantime gradually increases, seeming like a memory leak, 
until I restart spamd resets the number to about 15 seconds again. As a 
result, I have been restarting spamd every 6 hours or so to keep 
scantimes down. It's not a great system, but I haven't had time to turn 
on debug logging and analyze the problem.

Then today my cron job notified me, when it tried to restart spamd as 
usual:

"Could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use 
(IO::Socket::INET: Address already in use)"

And then it seems to have restarted the daemon successfully. But 
suddenly since then, my scantimes are down to a beautiful 5 second 
average!

What happened? Was I running two instances of spamd all along? How is 
that possible? And what was different today?

thanks,
 	Paul