From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FK0HO-0001bD-G0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:45:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2GLhOsr016975; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:43:24 GMT Received: from mail.shic.co.uk (static-195-248-105-109.adsl.hotchilli.net [195.248.105.109]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2GLbkWT005551 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:37:47 GMT Received: from [10.0.1.3] (unknown [10.0.1.3]) by mail.shic.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF44566175 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:37:44 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4419DAA8.4010900@shic.co.uk> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:37:44 +0000 From: "Steve [Gentoo]" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 071cbd06-c7b5-41d3-86ab-84ce34269340 X-Archives-Hash: c8e69f23f00f0d7b5f2aa944616ef049 I have (the latest) spamassassin 3.1.0 (on Perl 5.8.7) installed on my not-extremely-powerful small-scale Gentoo server (P2-450 with 256Mb RAM and 500Mb swap - not running X) and I'm experiencing a recurring fault... I'm running spamd and using the spamassassin client to re-direct email to it from my systemwide procmail setup (using the recommended | /usr/bin/spamc -f approach with a size limiter to avoid over-burdening spamassassin with any massive emails.) Everything seems to work well for a fair while, then the spamd process gets "wedged" - and in spite of there being a near-0 load, and dozens and dozens of messages reported by mailq, none of my mail gets processed in a hurry - and after a long while (maybe every half-an-hour, say) an email is delivered from the head of my mail queue - which has not passed through spamd (according to the headers) - and has no spam-score attached. I read some suggestions a long while ago which said that "--round-robin" as an option was a work-around for a bug with the same consequences. My /etc/conf.d/spamd currently has the options: SPAMD_OPTS="-m 5 -c -H -l --round-robin" However, I still get this problem. I thought that it was related to the length of time the spamd process had been running - so I set a cron job to re-start the server at an unusual time early every morning... but this hasn't been an successful work around either. It now seems that to be triggered by an increased system load - today I ran # emerge apache squirrelmail then left... when I returned the emerge had long-since completed by my spamd remained "stuck." Is this a problem everyone is having? I had no problem like this with the elder (3.0.4) version of spamassassin I had installed previously on the same hardware. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list