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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by "Rosenbaum, Larry M." <ro...@ornl.gov> on 2010/01/15 17:42:33 UTC
spamd: respawning server - why?
Yesterday one of our servers started having problems. I found the following messages in the syslog file:
Jan 14 14:12:38 localhost spamd[20926]: spamd: respawning server at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1080.
Jan 14 14:12:38 localhost spamd[20927]: spamd: respawning server at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1080.
Jan 14 14:13:45 localhost spamd[21038]: spamd: respawning server at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1080.
Jan 14 14:13:45 localhost spamd[21056]: spamd: respawning server at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1080.
Jan 14 14:13:45 localhost spamd[21057]: spamd: respawning server at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1080.
Jan 14 15:17:46 localhost spamd[21726]: spamd: respawning server at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1080.
..etc..
What causes this to happen? A reboot fixed the problem, but I want to make sure it doesn't happen again.
SunOS ornl50 5.9 Generic_118558-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210
SpamAssassin Server version 3.2.5
running on Perl 5.8.8
with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.011)
Re: spamd: respawning server - why?
Posted by "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <sp...@dostech.ca>.
On 15/01/2010 11:42 AM, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
> Yesterday one of our servers started having problems. I found the following messages in the syslog file:
>
> Jan 14 14:12:38 localhost spamd[20926]: spamd: respawning server at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1080.
> Jan 14 14:12:38 localhost spamd[20927]: spamd: respawning server at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1080.
> Jan 14 14:13:45 localhost spamd[21038]: spamd: respawning server at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1080.
> Jan 14 14:13:45 localhost spamd[21056]: spamd: respawning server at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1080.
> Jan 14 14:13:45 localhost spamd[21057]: spamd: respawning server at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1080.
> Jan 14 15:17:46 localhost spamd[21726]: spamd: respawning server at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1080.
> ..etc..
>
> What causes this to happen? A reboot fixed the problem, but I want to make sure it doesn't happen again.
>
> SunOS ornl50 5.9 Generic_118558-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210
> SpamAssassin Server version 3.2.5
> running on Perl 5.8.8
> with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.011)
I think this is caused by some sort of race condition funkiness that
happens in Perl on a heavily loaded systems. I also think that 3.3 may
not be affected. I also think I could be completely mistaken.
Daryl