On 22 Aug 2005 at 16:57, Nels Lindquist wrote: > On 22 Aug 2005 at 16:46, Nels Lindquist wrote: > > > Everything's great as far as detection goes, but I've run into an > > issue with MIMEDefang and I'm wondering if any of you have > > experienced anything similar. It looks like the multiplexor is > > unable to terminate slaves properly, and in short order there are > > MAX_SLAVES zombie processes, "no free slaves" and all mail is > > tempfailed. > > Sorry to reply to my own message, but this may be related to a > reported SpamAssassin bug: > > http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4518 > > I'm going to try SA 3.1RC1 again, but disable DCC.
I figured I'd be better off applying the patch attached to the above Bugzilla entry, but it didn't help. In retrospect, since I'm using dccifd with a socket it's probably not the same problem as was triggered with dccproc. The problem seems to be triggered when the load rises enough to spawn more than MX_MINIMUM slaves. Once those excess slaves have been idle for a while and the multiplexor attempts to shut them down, they become zombies. I assume that the same thing would happen over a longer period of time when slaves reach MX_REQUESTS. I've tried disabling embedded perl (although there are no difficulties with it with SA 3.04) and I'll probably upgrade to the latest version of MIMEDefang as well. Any other suggestions? ---- Nels Lindquist <*> Information Systems Manager Morningstar Air Express Inc. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
