http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3532
Summary: Number of Spamd process grow without any control and
system stucked
Product: Spamassassin
Version: 2.63
Platform: HP
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: blocker
Priority: P3
Component: spamc/spamd
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The system is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz with 626,63 MB of mem and
swap 2,0 GB with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 2.1 running Qmail with 5
concurrencyincoming process setting, spamassassin-2.63-1, clamav-0.70, qmail-
scanner-1.22.
During normal operation the number of Spamd process is equal to 1 or two, see
below...
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6:28pm up 12 days, 8:48, 1 user, load average: 0,35, 0,14, 0,10
73 processes: 71 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 4,0% user, 0,4% system, 0,0% nice, 95,6% idle
Mem: 641664K av, 547336K used, 94328K free, 56K shrd, 331816K buff
Swap: 2096440K av, 12984K used, 2083456K free 45824K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
21290 spamd 15 0 89128 86M 2108 S 0,0 13,8 0:04 spamd
21267 qscand 21 0 13356 13M 784 S 0,0 2,0 0:00 clamd
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But sometimes without any notice number of Spamd process grow without any
control to 10 or more ,RAM and Swap Mamory was filled and system stucked..
The situation come back to normal after the restart of spamd process
Below:
- /var/log/message
Jun 22 01:34:52 smtp kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 19481 (spamd)
- /var/log/maillog
Jun 22 08:20:06 smtp X-Qmail-Scanner-1.22: [smtp.comune.reggio-
calabria.it108788503347920447] corrupt or unknown Fsecure scanner error or
memory/resource/perms problem - exit status 1
Jun 22 08:20:09 smtp spamd[9530]: server killed by SIGTERM, shutting down
Jun 22 08:20:33 smtp spamd[19713]: logmsg: server killed by SIGTERM, shutting
down
- spamassassin options
SPAMDOPTIONS="-x -d -u spamd -H /home/spamd -D"
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