I'm pretty much seeing the same symptoms that Marc described. It does appear
to be when it hits two at the same time that it hangs. I haven't proved that
100% to myself yet. 

I'm not a C++ kinda guy but I do know a little. I might be able to help a
little. I was just trying to stick some debug logging in when I came back
into mail and saw this thread so.....


--
Kent Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Manager - Systems Admin & Networking
Hunter Engineering Company


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:45 PM
> To: Kirk Davis
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Sendmail + spamassassin == hang?
> 
> 
> FYI to you both -- I'm still interested in helping out.  
> Kirk, if we can
> pick up where we left off that'd be great.  ktrace'ing a 
> stuck spamc and
> stuck spamd will probably let us know exactly what's going on.
> 
> C
> 
> On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:10, Kirk Davis wrote:
> > Hi Marc,
> > 
> >     I am the one who did up the 2.01 FreeBSD port.  I hope 
> to get the
> > spamass-milter port done soon but I just arrive back from a 
> weeks vacation
> > so I will be playing catch-up over the new couple of days.
> > 
> >     This is the same problem I am seeing using the milter 
> filter setup.
> > I was working on this problem with Craig a few weeks ago 
> but then it was
> > interrupted with my vacation plans. Now that I am back I 
> will look into it
> > some more.
> > 
> >     Here is what I have so far.....  spammass-milter, 
> spamd, spamc works
> > great even under load until I see who jobs come through at 
> the same time.  I
> > can simulate this using an email benchmark utility called 
> 'postal' (it's in
> > the FreeBSD ports collection).  If I run one copy of the 
> utility it will
> > work without any hangs.  If I run two copied then 
> spamc/spamd seems to hang.
> > I think it's a race condition.  More to due with the timing 
> of the spawned
> > processes than the volume of email.
> > 
> >     I don't currently have ktrace compiled into my kernel.  I will
> > compile a kernel with ktrace support today and see if I can 
> get any more
> > detailed traces.
> > 
> >     Any information you have on this problem would help.
> > 
> > ---- Kirk
> > 
> > 
> > Kirk Davis
> > Senior Network Analyst, ITS
> > Edmonton Public Schools
> > (780) 429-8308
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 2:07 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [SAtalk] Sendmail + spamassassin == hang?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Morning all ...
> > 
> >     First off, am running on a FreeBSD system, with as much as
> > possible installed from ports ..
> > 
> >     Compiled/installed sendmail-sasl (sendmail 
> 8.12+milter), installed
> > spamassassin from ports, which is 2.01, and installed 
> spamass-milter from
> > sourceforge ... got everything configured and running ... 
> works like a
> > charm ... but ...
> > 
> >     After processing several messages, it just appear to 'hang' ...
> > 
> >     syslog for sendmail shows:
> > 
> > Feb  9 17:02:56 earth sendmail[4316]: g19KwudP004316: 
> Milter (spamassassin):
> > timeout before data read
> > Feb  9 17:02:56 earth sendmail[4316]: g19KwudP004316: 
> Milter (spamassassin):
> > to error state
> > Feb  9 17:02:56 earth sendmail[4316]: g19KwudP004316: 
> Milter (spamassassin):
> > init failed to open
> > Feb  9 17:02:56 earth sendmail[4316]: g19KwudP004316: 
> Milter (spamassassin):
> > to error state
> > 
> >     Restarting spamass-milter appears to fix the problem 
> ... but that
> > appears to also be a dead-code project on sourceforge :(  Is there
> > something else I can/should be doing?
> > 
> >     thanks ...
> > 
> > 
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