I am using Spamassassin 3.0.3 on a Gentoo AMD64 system with exim and exiscan. This has worked VERY well for months without a single issue. All of the sudden spamd eventually uses all of both CPU's and nearly locks the machine. I have tried downgrading to 3.0.2 with the same result. I have been using several of the RulesDuJour's and first started to suspect that.
I removed all of the files from /etc/mail/spamassassin except for the following local.cf: required_hits 5 skip_rbl_checks 0 use_bayes 0 score HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR 2 score ALL_TRUSTED 0 use_auto_whitelist 0 When spamd is running normally its processes look as such: # ps aux | grep spamd root 29434 0.0 1.6 66712 33828 ? Ss 21:13 0:00 /usr/sbin/spamd -d -r /var/run/spamd.pid -m 5 -c -H root 29442 0.1 1.8 69712 37152 ? S 21:13 0:00 spamd child root 29443 0.0 1.7 68852 36300 ? S 21:13 0:00 spamd child root 29444 0.0 1.7 68444 35904 ? S 21:13 0:00 spamd child root 29445 0.0 1.7 68124 35584 ? S 21:13 0:00 spamd child root 29446 0.0 1.7 68160 35600 ? S 21:13 0:00 spamd child When both CPU's are pegged at 100%, they look like this: # ps aux | grep spamd root 10097 0.2 5.6 152336 117208 ? Ss 10:32 0:06 /usr/sbin/spamd -d -r /var/run/spamd.pid -m 5 -c -H root 10378 0.9 6.8 176116 141012 ? S 10:32 0:19 spamd child root 10379 1.0 6.6 170452 136024 ? S 10:32 0:22 spamd child root 10380 0.9 6.8 174528 140080 ? S 10:32 0:19 spamd child nobody 10381 27.1 38.0 818616 783476 ? R 10:32 9:20 spamd child root 10382 0.7 6.4 167376 133004 ? S 10:32 0:16 spamd child I'm sure pasting that to a message screwed everything up, so you can also see them at http://daubnet.dyndns.org:3000/foo/spamassassin For some reason, one of the processes switches from being owned by root to owned by nobody. Its state also changes from S to R. The only way I can clear this is by killing all spamd processes and restarting the service. I was initially using bayes, but thought that might have something to do with it so I disabled it. This made no change. I've tried everything I can think of but nothing makes any difference. I have searched the archives and can't seem to find a solution. I know the list has heard this a million times, but I have changed nothing as far as settings in months :) Any suggestions? -- Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org 13:53:22 up 5 days, 23:52, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.20, 0.12
