>> >* 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. > >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:
I've dropped back to 3.1.5 last evening about 2200 CDT and no problems since. I'm also running FuzzyOCR 2.3b here and did not see the problem until I got to 3.1.7 I'll cc this to the FuzzyOCR list and see if anyone there is seeing this.... Thanks, ===[George R. Kasica]=== +1 262 677 0766 President +1 206 374 6482 FAX Netwrx Consulting Inc. Jackson, WI USA http://www.netwrx1.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #12862186