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.
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