[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/05/2006 09:47:06 AM: > Mark wrote: > > > Chris, > > >> I upgraded from SA 3.1.1 to SA 3.1.2 and I am now seeing the following > >> error message: > >> Jun 1 09:22:24 dent amavis[17593]: (17593-01) SA TIMED OUT, backtrace: > >> at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/DBBasedAddrList.pm > >> line 171 > >> I'm running Amavisd 2.3.3 with a pretty generic setup. > >> Any tips on trying to track this down? > > > Besides what Gary suggested (btw, increasing $sa_timeout is no longer > > necessary since 2.4.0), if your SA timeouts frequently occur in the > > DBBasedAddrList.pm / Plugin/AWL.pm modules, it may indicate that > > your AWL database is very large or corrupted, so that modifying > > entries there take a long time. > > > Mark > > Excellent point. I don't think most people realize that > auto-whitelist will grow forever (has this changed in newest > versions of spamassassin yet?) and I have seen some larger > than 700MB. If using the default DB based awl, you can use the > check_whitelist tool (in the tools directory of the source code) > to trim down the file somewhat. > > Or: http://www.deepnet.cx/~kdeugau/spamtools/trim_whitelist > > Gary V
Sorry I didn't get back you sooner on this, I ended up traveling unexpectedly. It does look like my AWL is huge, 326MB. I will try these tools and see if it trims it down. I think our volume is getting high enough to switch to SQL instead of DBD to relieve some load on the server. Chris _______________________________________________ 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/
