Re: spamass-milter stops working under heavy load

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 16), address@hidden said:
> Our two sendmail/spamassmilter-0.2.0-3 relays are working fine when
> idling. But under more heavy load (20K/day) the process stops working
> after 1 to 2 hours. Then we got only this messages in the logs:
> 
> May  9 07:06:23 rdh-relay sendmail[23731]: i4972NC4023731:
> mail.mydomain.com [1.3.9.9] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN
> during connection to MTA
> May  9 07:06:26 rdh-relay sendmail[23733]: i4972QC4023733: Milter 
> (spamassassin): timeout before data read
> May  9 07:06:26 rdh-relay sendmail[23733]: i4972QC4023733: Milter 
> (spamassassin): to error state
> May  9 07:06:26 rdh-relay sendmail[23733]: i4972QC4023733: Milter 
> (spamassassin): init failed to open
> May  9 07:06:26 rdh-relay sendmail[23733]: i4972QC4023733: Milter 
> (spamassassin): to error state

Standard behaviour for threaded apps under Linux when they crash.  I
bet if you run "ps axw | grep spamass-milter", you see one process
instead of the usual 3.  Extra points if you turn on coredumps and get
a useable stack trace, or if you can figure out the email causing the
crash.  I've gotten stack traces from RedHat users (dunno if the
patches in redhat's RPM are the same as the ones in Suse's though), but
I haven't determine where it's crashing.

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        Dan Nelson
        address@hidden