On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, RW wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 23:41:38 -0500 (EST)
James Smallacombe <u...@3.am> wrote:
Installing from ports automatically installs perl
5.10.1 which causes spamc children to run wild and basically, spamd
can't cope with it.
I don't need or want perl 5.bleeding.edge, 5.8.9 was working just
fine. I tried doing a 'make clean' then removing 5.10 and correcting
all the symlinks to point to 5.8.9, I tried running use.perl system,
but SA just keeps looking for 510 and installing it when it doesn't
find it.
SpamAssassin's port makefile has "USE_PERL5_RUN= 5.8.8+", so it should
work with 5.8.9, but if you build SA without perl installed, the
default perl version of 5.10 is installed as a dependency. The
correct way to revert to 5.8.9 is to remove 5.10 and put 5.8.9 back
before reinstalling SA. However there may be a port in your system
that needs 5.10+ - possibly a new SA dependency.
FWIW I've been using 5.10 for a year without any problems, it's now
the default in FreeBSD and FreeBSD is very conservative, it's far from
bleeding edge.
When you say that spamc children run wild I presume you mean spamd
children. Are you using --round-robin with spamd? If so try using the
default scaling instead. When I was playing around with spamd I
noticed that round-robin caused the number of children to run away and
lock-up at "max-children"
I actually meant spamc's that had no spamd children to talk to. It seems
the ports version of SA replaced my original sa-spamd startup script,
which raised the max children from (default?) of 5 to 30. I just
reinstalled 3.3.0 from source instead of ports and fixed the startup
script, so now it uses perl 5.8.9, yet it still seems to be using a lot
more CPU than 3.2.5 did...is this normal?
load averages: 5.76, 5.19, 4.19
load averages: 3.20, 4.60, 4.15
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU
COMMAND
29366 root 1 107 0 52868K 48836K CPU0 0 0:32 53.37%
perl5.8.9
23312 root 1 20 0 71080K 66736K lockf 0 2:08 28.96%
perl5.8.9
20863 root 1 65 0 88380K 78852K select 1 2:16 18.99%
perl5.8.9
28759 root 1 20 0 71120K 66668K lockf 0 1:11 10.50%
perl5.8.9
20862 root 1 20 0 81852K 74316K lockf 1 2:53 7.08%
perl5.8.9
34796 root 1 46 0 44144K 40664K select 1 0:01 3.37%
perl5.8.9
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