Increase the RAM to 1GB or more as soon as possible. I bet the box is swapping itself silly under heavy load.
Which version of SA? If it's not 3.1.5 install it and then sa-update it. Make sure you're running the ImageInfo plugin too: http://www.rulesemporium.com/plugins.htm Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK > -----Original Message----- > From: Payal Rathod [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 September 2006 15:37 > To: SpamAssassin > Subject: SA increasing load average a lot and spams getting through > > Hi, > A friend of mine is maintaining a mail server for a school and I am > helpig her out. There are just 150-200 accounts and the machine is > having 512 Mb RAM and 1Gb swap running Cent OS with processor > being AMD > Athlon. spamd and spamc pair is used with qmail as mailserver and > processing done via .qmail files. > spamd is started as, > /usr/bin/spamd -m 10 -x -u spamd -H /home/spamd > Sometimes when there is heavy load we get in logs, > Cannot open bayes databases /var/bayes/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File > exists > (Bayes works properly though). > The load average always hovers around 20.0 and top shows spamd is > culprit. Also, I have trained over 10,000 each of spam and > ham and also > use all sare rules yet many spams are passing thru' last few days. > > Now 2 questions, what is that error for and what more can I > do for spam? > The teachers are sick of spam since last few days. > > With warm regards, > -Payal > > >
