From: Craig Sanders (castaz.net.au)
Date: Sun Mar 02 2003 - 16:54:02 CST

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On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 10:01:23AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:28:18AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > yep. i'm still running 2.0.3 at the moment, will upgrade to 2.0.4
> > soon. in the meantime, my bf.sh script uses procmail to enforce
> > timeouts on bogofilter and spamassassin (i rewrote the scripts a few
> > days ago when i noticed that some instances of spamd (v2.44) were
> > stuck, with run-times of over 30 minutes).
>
> Do you perhaps mean spamc? This sounds like the bug I submitted to
> the SpamAssassin people from my load testing last year - once spamc
> connects successfully, there is no timeout on its comm to spamd. It
> is supposedly fixed in 2.50 and after according to the email I got
> recently, but I have not rechecked it.

i'm using spamc, but it's the spamd process which gets stuck. spamc
makes a connection to spamd, which forks another copy of itself to
handle the request.

i haven't seen any stuck spamd processes since i upgraded to SA 2.50 a
few days ago....but the mail load has been significantly lower over the
weekend.

craig

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craig sanders <castaz.net.au>

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