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 ... > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk