Thanks for the replies. At the moment everything is running fine and i have the time to check why this happened. And maybe allready found it. It seems like the database server (mysql) wasn't running 'normal'. Amavis reported many retries to connect over the weekend and then switched to the error: 'too many links in amavis/tmp'. So maybe amavis restartet itself and allways created new temp directories. There where no more 'dead' directories from yesterday afternoon til now. Maybe it's a goog idea to put a connection test for mysql and amavisd in our nagios.
Running amavisd-new 2.4.3, btw. Postfix 2.2.9, SA 3.1.7, clamd 0.88.5. I know that the machine needs more RAM. Maybe i should have mentioned it is running in a VM-Ware Session on a DELL Server that only has 768MB at the moment. For normal operation it is running really smooth (load average between .1 and .2). Only if there is any problem and many mails are in the queue (like the 15k yesterday) it takes time to process them (took like 3 hours til the queue was down to normal). I will try to get a bit mor RAM and tune the VM Session a bit. A normal weekdays load is aroung 6 to 7k mails. Where 500 to 800 mails are clean, around 500 infected and rest blocked as spam. On weekends there is nearly no clean mail (around 50 a day), spam is the same amount and a bit more infected mail is hitting us. Thanks for the sa-bayes tip Gary, i will run 'sa-learn --force-expire' tonight. Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Martin Bärtl ------------------------------------------------- CDP Bharat Forge GmbH mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Martin wrote: > >> Hello, > >> Ok, 2nd try, mail gateway is back to normal operation. > >> I just ran into a problem cause amavis reported in the log file that >> there are too many links in amavis/tmp directory. Amavis didn't accept any >> more mails from postfix. I checked that and found around 32k directories in >> the format "ammavis<DATE>T<TIME>", all from the last 3 days. In most of them >> are 1 file "email.txt" and 1 directory "parts". >> I moved around 3k of those directories to another place, restarted amavis >> and it is back working. A bit slow cause postfix has around 15k mails in the >> queue, but working. >> Now the question: can i delete those directories without losing mails? Or >> what do i have to do with them? > >http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/#faq-gen >You really need to determine why this is happening, as it should not. >What version of amavisd-new are you running? > >> Another question regarding performance: What would be the best >> configuration for amavisd childs? I have mysql, postfix, clamd, amavisd, >> spamassassin running on this machine (P4 2800 (no HT), 384MB Ram). At the >> moment i have 5 processes configured but i think fewer would maybe be better >> cause the load average is around 3 to 4 with that many amavisd processes. > >As mentioned, more ram. > >> For Spamassassin bayes storage to mysql: What housekeeping should be done to >> bayes_seen and bayes_tokens? Those 2 tables are getting really big (over >> 300k entries now). > >Unless you have disabled bayes_auto_expire, these files are automatically >maintained. You can manually run 'sa-learn --force-expire' (as your amavis >user) but sa-learn is extremely CPU intensive and will cause even more >problems. For this reason, some people disable bayes_auto_expire and run >'sa-learn --force-expire' once a day in the off hours. > >> Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen > >> Martin Bärtl >> ------------------------------------------------- >> CDP Bharat Forge GmbH >> mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Gary V > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
