hello list, i am facing spamd child processing timeout errors in my maillog and after that it does not scan mails and SPAMs are passed through. i am having qmail installation, spamassassin 3.1.8 on perl 5.8.7, with bayes, awl and userpref on postgresql on a remote machine.
here is my local.cf rewrite_header Subject [SPAM] trusted_networks 192.168.100. required_score 8.0 use_bayes 1 bayes_auto_learn 1 use_auto_whitelist 1 report_safe 0 skip_rbl_checks 0 bayes_store_module Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::PgSQL bayes_sql_dsn DBI:Pg:dbname=spamassassin;host=[IP ADDRESS] bayes_sql_username [USER] bayes_sql_password [PASSWORD] auto_whitelist_factory Mail::SpamAssassin::SQLBasedAddrList user_awl_dsn DBI:Pg:dbname=spamassassin;host=[IP ADDRESS] user_awl_sql_username [USER] user_awl_sql_password [PASSWORD] user_scores_dsn DBI:Pg:dbname=spamassassin;host=[IP ADDRESS] user_scores_sql_username [USER] user_scores_sql_password [PASSWORD] bayes_sql_override_username spamd allow_user_rules 1 header RCVD_IN_PSBL eval:check_rbl('psbl', 'psbl.surriel.com.') describe RCVD_IN_PSBL Received via a relay in PSBL tflags RCVD_IN_PSBL net score RCVD_IN_PSBL 0 1.00 0 1.00 header X_CHINESE_RELAY eval:check_rbl('relay', 'cn.rbl.cluecentral.net.') describe X_CHINESE_RELAY Received via a relay in China score X_CHINESE_RELAY 1.5 header X_KOREAN_RELAY eval:check_rbl('relay', 'korea.services.net.') describe X_KOREAN_RELAY Received via a relay in Korea score X_KOREAN_RELAY 1.5 below is the extact from the logs Mar 2 04:38:52 ngblhost3 spamd[12490]: child processing timeout at /usr/bin/spamd line 1085, <GEN185> line 385. Mar 2 04:38:52 ngblhost3 spamd[12490]: child processing timeout at /usr/bin/spamd line 1085, <GEN185> line 385. Mar 2 04:38:52 ngblhost3 spamd[944]: child processing timeout at /usr/bin/spamd line 1085, <GEN404> line 160. Mar 2 04:38:52 ngblhost3 spamd[944]: child processing timeout at /usr/bin/spamd line 1085, <GEN404> line 160. Mar 2 04:38:52 ngblhost3 spamd[944]: prepare_cached(SELECT token, spam_count, ham_count, atime Mar 2 04:38:52 ngblhost3 spamd[944]: FROM bayes_token Mar 2 04:38:52 ngblhost3 spamd[944]: WHERE id = ? Mar 2 04:38:52 ngblhost3 spamd[944]: AND token IN (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)) statement handle DBI::st=HASH(0x98c08a4) still Active at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/PgSQL.pm line 445 after this its full of entries like the one below Mar 2 04:39:37 ngblhost3 qmail-scanner[28726]: Clear:RC:0(86.18.80.166):SA:0(?/?): 604.7591 29876 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL_ADDRESS] Job_Offer._[Thu,_01_Mar_2007_14:58:07_-0800] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disgustful.gif:20552 orig-ngblhost3 117278997280128726:29876 1172789977.28728-0.ngblhost3:1121 and after sometime logs show that it is working fine. Mar 2 04:43:10 ngblhost3 qmail-scanner[28853]: Clear:RC:0(24.8.5.208):SA:0(?/?): 600.1614 6668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL_ADDRESS] For_Shalu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> orig-ngblhost3117279019080128853:6668 1172790190.28855-0.ngblhost3:1878 1172790190.28855-1.ngblhost3:3563 Mar 2 04:43:58 ngblhost3 spamd[12490]: spamd: identified spam (24.7/8.0) for qscand:510 in 941.7 seconds, 29868 bytes. Mar 2 04:43:58 ngblhost3 spamd[12490]: spamd: result: Y 24 - BAYES_99,HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2,HELO_DYNAMIC_SPLIT_IP,HTML_30_40,HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_12,HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_SHORT_LINK_IMG_2,MIME_HTML_ONLY,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SARE_GIF_ATTACH,SARE_GIF_STOX,TVD_FW_GRAPHIC_NAME_LONG,URIBL_BLACK scantime=941.7,size=29868,user=qscand,uid=510,required_score=8.0,rhost=ngblhost3,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=39666,mid=(unknown),bayes=1,autolearn=spam any suggestions how to fix this or the reason for this. Sandep