Mike Fahey writes: > spamassassin server - 3gb ram, intel quad core 2.4 cpu,freebsd 6.2 > > Every day the bayesian database gets corrupted. We see the following in > the log file. We only use sqlite for scores. > > bayes: cannot open bayes databases /usr/local/share/spamassassin/bayes_* > R/W: > lock failed: Interrupted system call
This is normal; the error message means that there is contention for the lock, and one spamd process cannot get the lock. It's fine. > When we see the following in the logfile memory is at 1gig +. However > after restarting spamassassin there are memory usage goes right back to > 400mb. Something is corrupting the database. > I have to stop spamassassin, rm bayes* and restart spamassassin. Could you check for extremely large bayes db files? --j.
