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
