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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2005/08/18 22:39:35 UTC

Re: zombies

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hmm -- sounds like a bug.

If you can capture an "strace" trace of a spamd process starting
a pyzor that becomes a zombie, that would be very useful data!

- --j.

Jim Knuth writes:
> Hallo und Guten Abend spamassassin-users,
> 
> Since I use SpamAssassin 3.001000, I have sometimes zombies. And
> I`ve found out it. The zombie was pyzor. Before this was not.
> What can I do? Switch off pyzor? Or?
> 
> Spamassassin works with amavisd-new 2.3.3pre1 and Postfix 2.3.*
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Re: zombies

Posted by Jim Knuth <jk...@jkart.de>.
Hallo und Guten Morgen Justin,

Heute (am 19.08.2005 - 01:45 Uhr)
   schriebst Du: 

>
> Yep, that's a possibility... Jim, you use

>     strace -fo LOG -p $pid

> to trace an amavisd-new process (or spamd process etc.), then
> scan some mails until it happens.  If it occurs due to a traced
> process, you then have the strace data.


thank you. You mean the master pid of mamavisd-new?

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Re: zombies

Posted by Mark Martinec <Ma...@ijs.si>.
Jim Knuth writes:
> > Since I use SpamAssassin 3.001000, I have sometimes zombies. And
> > I`ve found out it. The zombie was pyzor. Before this was not.
> > What can I do? Switch off pyzor? Or?
> >
> > Spamassassin works with amavisd-new 2.3.3pre1 and Postfix 2.3.*

From Justin Mason:
> hmm -- sounds like a bug.
>
> If you can capture an "strace" trace of a spamd process starting
> a pyzor that becomes a zombie, that would be very useful data!

My first guess it that it is a symptom of:
  http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4518

Mark

Re: zombies

Posted by Jim Knuth <jk...@jkart.de>.
Hallo und Guten Tag Justin,

Heute (am 20.08.2005 - 04:50 Uhr)
   schriebst Du: 

> unfortunately, there's no sign of a pyzor process starting there.
> a search for "pyzor" finds nothing.

yeah, sorry. But I have logged a long time and this was not. :(
Another possibility?


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Re: zombies

Posted by Jim Knuth <jk...@jkart.de>.
Hallo und Guten Tag Justin,

Gestern (am 18.08.2005 - 22:39 Uhr)
   schriebst Du: 

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> hmm -- sounds like a bug.

> If you can capture an "strace" trace of a spamd process starting
> a pyzor that becomes a zombie, that would be very useful data!



attached the trace file


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Re: zombies

Posted by Jim Knuth <jk...@jkart.de>.
Hallo und Guten Abend Justin,

Heute (am 18.08.2005 - 22:39 Uhr)
   schriebst Du: 

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> hmm -- sounds like a bug.

> If you can capture an "strace" trace of a spamd process starting

Sorry, but I don`t no how. :( Can you give me an hint?

> a pyzor that becomes a zombie, that would be very useful data!


I`ts only work with amavisd-new (calls spamassassin directly)


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