On 12/13/05, Mark Martinec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like a problem with berkeley db (libdb). What version of libdb are you > using - it is logged during startup like: > > amavis[xxx]: Creating db in /var/amavis/db/; BerkeleyDB 0.27, libdb 4.3
Looks like I've got an older version- it must default to 3.3 from ports, asI didn't specify the WITH_BDB_VER stuff at all: Creating db in /var/amavis/db/; BerkeleyDB 0.27, libdb 3.3 I'll try a deinstall/reinstall with 4.3 since you/others reported luck with this. > The last time this was reported it turned out it was with an old version > of libdb. If this is also true in your case, try with a more recent version > form ports, e.g. databases/db42 or databases/db43 or databases/db44. > See also that the databases/p5-BerkeleyDB is reasonably recent. > > > So, 17 seconds for the "update_cache" step. Can anyone elaborate on > > what exactly that is? > > It is not normal. Possibly a contention, but more likely a bug in bdb. > During "update_cache" step a MD5 digest of a message body, along > with results of virus and spam checks, are written to a database. > > > /var/amavis is currently on a ramdisk, (freebsd > > 6.0) so it shouldn't be disk IO related. Also, is this related to the > > $enable_global_cache setting? If so, what exactly does this cache do? > > Yes, it is related. Setting $enable_global_cache to 0 will disable > bdb-based cache, which can be used as a stop-gap measure > until the problem is fixed. > > Using a cache of recent mail checks can quicken checking messages > that have the same content and are sent as separate messages, > e.g. some types of spam or viruses, and some types of mailing list traffic. > Turning it off looses some benefit, but is not too bad. Thanks for the info. I'll try to update bdb in hopes of fixing this. --falz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
