----- Original Message ----- From: "George R. Kasica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <users@spamassassin.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:04 AM Subject: Re: SA 3.1.7 children hang but don't die
> >* George R. Kasica wrote (18/10/06 14:55): > >> I'm noticing in 3.1.7 here that SA children are entering the K state > >> but not disappearing from the proc list, leaving me with eventually > >> many hung SA items and no running children as I hit the max child > >> limit. I've NOT seen the behavior in 3.1.5 which I've gone back to as > >> of last evening. > >> > >> Has anyone else noticed this and if so is there are cause/solution for > >> it out there? What can I provide to help with the solution?? > > > >I've been seeing this (or something similar) with 3.1.5, and I reported > >it, with a similarly suspect subject line, a few days ago. > OK. Well, assuming I don't end up in FBI custody for my poor choice of > words..... > > >My best guess is that it's related to logrotate. I've added a spamd > >restart (SIGHUP should do it) after logrotate runs, and I'm not seeing > >the problem any more. But, since it occurs unpredictably, I may be > >speaking too soon. There are a few bugzilla entries that might be > >relevant. Eg http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4237 > >and http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4316 > I have one log rotate about 0400 here and a full restart of the mail > system at 0500 every day to keep things happy and I'm seeing this > later in the day say 9-10am so I don't think its log rotate related. > > Those bugs are not what I'm seeing, I'm seeing totally stuck in K > state children that won't go away until you go out and start killing > procs. > > George, Nazarene(6/1/99- ), Ginger/The Beast Kasica(8/1/88-3/19/01, 1/17/02-), MR. Tibbs(8/1/90-5/24/06) > Jackson, WI USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.netwrx1.com/georgek > ICQ #12862186 > > ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ > `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) > (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' > _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' > (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' > > Seeing the exact same thing here, running SA 3.1.7 on FreeBSD. My logs rotate once a day at midnight, and I can kill spamd and restart spamassassin during the day and very quickly these "undead" processes start building up. On my box it's definitely related to FuzzyOCR - I turn off FuzzyOCR and the problem goes away. The problem is I LOVE FuzzyOCR - it kills a lot of spam! I will probably try going back to SA 3.1.5 and see if that fixes it. Sandy
