> > > > Since I use SpamAssassin 3.001000, I have sometimes zombies. And > > > > I`ve found out it. The zombie was pyzor.
> > My first guess it that it is a symptom of: > > http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4518 > Yep, that's a possibility... I expect the scenario goes like that: - SA spawns a pyzor process, which does not finish in 5 seconds; - due to #4518 the pipe is not auto-closed by SA until a next mail-to-be-checked by this process comes around, which may take some time on a small site during non-busy hours; - during that time pyzor process terminates, but is not reclaimed by the parent process because it still has its end of a pipe open. During this time the pyzor process is technically a zombie. The zombie is reclaimed when the pipe is eventually closed, or later by the init process when amavisd child process retires, which may be after a few dozens of processed messages. Mark
