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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Sebastian Ries <se...@dtnet.de> on 2006/12/29 10:59:39 UTC

SA crashes on higher load

Hi there!

I have running a Spamassassin
SpamAssassin version 3.1.7
  running on Perl version 5.8.8
(running on a Debian sarge, upgraded SA from etch)

About once a week the spamd process crashes and the error message that occures 
in the maillog is:
prefork: select returned -1! recovering: Bad file descriptor

Mail delivering works fine but no more mail is scanned by SA :-(

Restarting the SA gets rid of this but is there an update to prevent this?

Regards
Sebastian Ries

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RE: SA crashes on higher load

Posted by vertito <ve...@aim-consultants.com>.
Further reconfiguration of MTA can handle this issues.
Denying any other mail connections while load is high is also advisable.
Delaying those connections is also another alternative while the server load is not in normal. 
You might want to check that email and restrict SA to scan email who has _THIS_ email size only
and increase her SA children perhaps would somehow help.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastian Ries [mailto:sebastian.ries@dtnet.de] 
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 11:00 AM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: SA crashes on higher load

Hi there!

I have running a Spamassassin
SpamAssassin version 3.1.7
  running on Perl version 5.8.8
(running on a Debian sarge, upgraded SA from etch)

About once a week the spamd process crashes and the error message that occures in the maillog is:
prefork: select returned -1! recovering: Bad file descriptor

Mail delivering works fine but no more mail is scanned by SA :-(

Restarting the SA gets rid of this but is there an update to prevent this?

Regards
Sebastian Ries

--
------------------------------------------------------------
DT Netsolution GmbH -  Talaeckerstr. 30 -  D-70437 Stuttgart
Tel: +49-711-849910-36               Fax: +49-711-849910-936
WEB: http://www.dtnet.de/     email: Sebastian.Ries@dtnet.de