Alex, > I have a spamassassin-v3.3.2, amavisd-2.6.6 on fedora15. I'm working > on trying to do some performance tuning. During the normal course of > operation, I have the following messages in the logs: > > Oct 25 13:31:36 mail02 amavis[20312]: (20312-01-30) _WARN: bayes: > cannot open bayes databases /var/spool/amavisd/.spamassassin/bayes_* > R/W: lock failed: File exists > > Is this a result of having too many amavisd processes running at once?
More likely: too many amavisd processes trying to do an auto-expiry run at once. A workaround is to disable bayes auto-expiration and expire tokens periodically by: sa-learn --force-expire. Btw, you do have a 'lock_method flock' in local.cf, don't you? A better solution is to move bayes database to SQL, as Robert suggested. Mark
