I am running SA 2.60 installed from the RPMs on Red Hat 9, on an AMD 2100+ based system with a half-gig of RAM.

 

This has now happened for the second time. Before when it happened, about two weeks ago, I figured it was just a coincidence. Now, I’m positive that it’s SA-LEARN that is the culprit, either directly or indirectly.

 

I have noticed that when I try to run sa-learn on a corpus of email that is “too large,” it will terminate with the message “segmentation fault.” Now, someone here says that’s not an SA problem, but a Perl problem. No matter. It is irregular and ought not to happen running a “standard” version of Perl (I’m using 5.8.0).

 

SA-Learn works just fine on a “small” corpus. However, there seems to be a “dead zone” in there—maybe 200 emails or so—where SA-Learn “hangs,” not only itself but the whole system. I’m talking TOTAL freeze-up, have to hard-reset, everything.

 

Even worse, it makes hash out of the filesystems, and it takes several hard resets before I get rid of the “kernel panic” messages!

 

It hoses stuff up like I’ve NEVER seen before with Linux!

 

Something ain’t right here, I’m telling you. I don’t care if it is SA, Perl, whatever, there is no way that this should happen.

 

William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.

Polhemus Engineering Company

Katy, Texas USA

 

 

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