On 30/12/2005 1:33 PM, Mabry Tyson wrote:
We keep occasionally (once a day or two) hitting an infinite loop in
spamd 3.1.0 where the process fails to terminate. We find that after a
while some resource is used up and the system stops accepting new spamd
connections. The process accumulates run time, but is not running at
100% of the cpu.
In the syslogs we find
Dec 30 06:25:05 Savory spamd[31005]: prefork: syswrite(7) failed,
retrying... at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm
line 554.
Dec 30 06:25:30 Savory last message repeated 5 times
...
Dec 30 08:00:30 Savory last message repeated 12 times
Dec 30 08:01:05 Savory last message repeated 7 times
PLEASE take a look at the following bug:
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4590
...and compare your patch to Justin's. If you can try out Justin's
patch and comment on whether it works for you, it'd be appreciated.
Daryl
