On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 16:46 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > What causes a spamd 3.2.5 child process to be terminated by receiving > > a SIGCHLD signal? > > > > A timeout in the child perhaps? > That thought that may be the reason. It certainly seems to apply when a child runs longer than the time set by --timeout-child but there are a few cases where a SIGCHLD is sent when the child has only run for a second or two. Its a pity the log message doesn't include the reason why the SIGCHLD was sent.
Martin