Hi All,
We run a relatively small (amount of clients) freebsd email hosting
server, was running spamassassin: 3.0.2 on a qmail server. We took on a
new client who was recieving alot of spam, as their old provider kept
telling them there was nothing that could be done about spam.
Well, our server easily handled the spam prior to this client, then
suddenly the spam level increased from around 300 a day to about 6000 a
day. The server itself is a quad xeon with 1Gig of ram, I plan to
upgrade the ram tomorrow.
I upgraded spamassassin to 3.1.7 to take advantage of the
features/fixes, and to take care of the fact that while running 3.0.2
spamassassin eventually took all available ram and swap, then died, I
had to reboot anyway so did the upgrade.
After the upgrade I began seeing errors like...
prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it
This was while running spamassassin under freebsd's stock sa-spamd.sh,
and during a "spam attack".
I made this change...
command_args="-d -m 10 -r ${pidfile}"
So it is now running as...
/usr/local/bin/spamd -c -d -m 10 -r /var/run/spamd/spamd.pid
(perl5.8.5) root
Now the error has changed to...
spamd[2817]: spamd: handled cleanup of child pid 9679 due to SIGCHLD
spamd[2817]:Use of uninitialized value in numeric
eq (==)
at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm
line 689
And here's line 689
687 foreach my $pid (@pids) {
688 my $k = $kids->{$pid};
689 if ($k == PFSTATE_IDLE) {
690 $statestr .= 'I';
691 $num_idle++;
Is this truely a problem with spamassassin? Or could I have a problem
elsewhere? Do I need to make an additional change in how it is running?
All perl mods and cpan have been updated to latest versions, --lint
contains no errors.
--
Ron
System Administrator
Computer Geex, Inc.
(406) 494-5806
