Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

Quanah, Again, the only difference is 2.9.0 vs 2.10.1. I.e., we used the same uulib library in 2.9.0 without these issues. Unless do_ascii was modified between 2.9.0 and 2.10.1 to add uulib checks, this doesn't seem like it would be the source. I will go and remove it however, since it is

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

The change log to Convert::UUlib 1.50 shows: Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib. 1.5 Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015 - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof Wojtaś). - on systems that support it (posix + mmap + map_anonymous), allocate all dynamic areas via mmap

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

--On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:40 PM +0100 Mark Martinec wrote: The change log to Convert::UUlib 1.50 shows: Revision history for Perl extension Convert::UUlib. 1.5 Sat Jul 11 03:56:06 CEST 2015 - fix a heap overflow (testcase by Krzysztof

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

--On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:26 PM +0100 Mark Martinec wrote: Quanah, Again, the only difference is 2.9.0 vs 2.10.1. I.e., we used the same uulib library in 2.9.0 without these issues. Unless do_ascii was modified between 2.9.0 and 2.10.1 to add uulib

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

Quanah, We recently updated to Amavisd 2.10.1 from 2.9.0 internally, and have found that amavisd constantly dies while processing messages after being put under a moderate load in our QA environment. Jan 19 06:57:52 zqa-211 amavis-services[18544]: PID 13724 went away, 13724-01 The process

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

--On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 3:21 PM +0100 Mark Martinec wrote: There you go, the problem must be in do_ascii - which calls Convert::UUlib, which in turn uses the uulib library - which has been known to cause crashes in the past. It is ancient library, poorly

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

--On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 6:40 AM -0800 Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 3:21 PM +0100 Mark Martinec wrote: There you go, the problem must be in do_ascii - which calls Convert::UUlib, which in turn uses the

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

--On Thursday, January 21, 2016 11:08 AM -0800 Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: To be clear, this happens on any server (we have hundreds) if we put amavis under load. They have plenty of memory, and are not running out. I think this is related to the changes made here: - use a

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

--On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 8:19 AM +1000 Noel Butler wrote: you might want to CC Marc directly - he hasn't posted in here in a very log time, inn fact Oct 2014 is last time I think when he announced that version, strange, since he posts regularly on postfix list

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

Yeah, a lot of people here have seem to have no luck, I think I mentioned twice about a problem with no answer (gave up asking a third time) Maybe amavisd-new is going the same way as mailscanner, ie: abandonware On 26/01/2016 08:31, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

--On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 8:50 AM +1000 Noel Butler wrote: Yeah, a lot of people here have seem to have no luck, I think I mentioned twice about a problem with no answer (gave up asking a third time) Maybe amavisd-new is going the same way as mailscanner, ie:

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

you might want to CC Marc directly - he hasn't posted in here in a very log time, inn fact Oct 2014 is last time I think when he announced that version, strange, since he posts regularly on postfix list we know he's still alive and kickin. On 26/01/2016 04:48, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

Yes, I agree, github would be perfect On 26/01/2016 08:56, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 8:50 AM +1000 Noel Butler wrote: Yeah, a lot of people here have seem to have no luck, I think I mentioned twice about a problem with no answer

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

--On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 10:39 PM -0700 Thomas Spuhler wrote: maybe worthwhile to look if it uses to daemonized version of clam (clamd not clamav) Thanks for the thought, but this doesn't appear to be the issue (See my reply to Ben coming in shortly.

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

--On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 8:04 PM -0500 listsb-ama...@bitrate.net wrote: On Jan 19, 2016, at 18.09, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: amavis-services[18544]: PID 13724 went away, 13724-01 does $log_level = 5 reveal any additional clues about what happened to the process?

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

On Jan 19, 2016, at 18.09, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > We recently updated to Amavisd 2.10.1 from 2.9.0 internally, and have found > that amavisd constantly dies while processing messages after being put under > a moderate load in our QA environment. > > For example,

Re: Amavis 2.10.1 dies and is unusable when put under moderate load

On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 08:04:50 PM listsb-ama...@bitrate.net wrote: > On Jan 19, 2016, at 18.09, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > We recently updated to Amavisd 2.10.1 from 2.9.0 internally, and have > > found that amavisd constantly dies while processing messages after