Re: Still problems with spamd at 100%

[François Rousseau <fr...@gmail.com>]

First, this answer will not solve your problem but I wish will help
you to identify the exact trouble.

Try to disable every module/option, one by one.
Also try to remove some rules, maybe start with __DOS_HAS_ANY_URI

That will not solve your issue but it will probably help to find what
is causing the issue.

François Rousseau

2007/10/30, Peter Fastré <pe...@gmail.com>:
> A few weeks ago, I posted the following question:
>
> Hello
>
> I have a severe problem with one of my mailservers. I'm using spamassassin
> 3.2.3 in combination with exim 4.66, and experience hanging spamd processes
> which consume all my server resources.
> I've searched these mailing lists, searched google, searched documentation,
> ... I found very much old posts of people experiencing the same problems, so
> I think it's a very common one. I tried different solutions: tracing the
> process (process doesn't do anything when it hangs - no trace output),
> clearing the bayes database (doesn't help), ...
> The problem is really urgent, because exim receives timeouts from spamd, and
> rejects the mails.
> I reduced the number of mails each spamd processes, to reduce the risk of
> hanging. Usually it hangs after having processed 2 or 3 mails.
> Now I've even reduced it to 1, the hangups are less often, but still there!
> I hope someone has a solution, or a clue to what I can do!
> I checked the log files and debug output, which is very consistent. The last
> thing all hanging processes do, is this:
> Oct 19 09:42:09 mail01 spamd[6072]: rules: ran uri rule __DOS_HAS_ANY_URI
> ======> got hit: "k"
> After this line in the log, the process hangs.
>
> For your reference: the full log file is here:
>      http://peter.lunatis.be/temp/spamd.txt
>
> After trying some things that were suggested, the problem went away for a
> time. Now it's back though, and I can't work around it. I really hope
> someone can give me a direction to search, because this thing is really
> driving me crazy!
> I noticed the startup is a little bit weird too:
>      http://peter.lunatis.be/temp/spamd-startup.txt
>
> What am I doing wrong?????
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
>
>

Re: Still problems with spamd at 100%

[Olivier Nicole <on...@cs.ait.ac.th>]

> I have a severe problem with one of my mailservers. I'm using spamassassin
> 3.2.3 in combination with exim 4.66, and experience hanging spamd processes
> which consume all my server resources.
> I've searched these mailing lists, searched google, searched documentation,
> ... I found very much old posts of people experiencing the same problems, so
> I think it's a very common one. I tried different solutions: tracing the
> process (process doesn't do anything when it hangs - no trace output),
> clearing the bayes database (doesn't help), ...

Do you store user preferences in files? Have you checked that users
are not over quota, that the autowhitelist/bayes files are not
corrupted?

Bests,

Olivier