Jim, > Hi - Some time ago I started running into problems with amavisd hanging ... > At this point no further mail is processed until daemons are restarted. > The current configuration (aside from security updates) worked > flawlessly for many months before these problems started. ... > I have increased the amavisd debug level and it is clear that the > problem results after 'CALLING SA check', from which amavis never > returns. When this occurs, the child appears to be in a sleep state. > An strace shows the following. ... > A netstat shows the connections are in a CLOSE_WAIT state. The lsof > output includes the following (I have the full output available if > needed). > amavisd-n 7002 amavis 3u unix 0xf1cea6a0 91865013 socket > amavisd-n 7002 amavis 4u IPv4 91865015 TCP > localhost:10024 (LISTEN) amavisd-n 7002 amavis 5u REG 8,3 > 6399 5227052 /var/lib/amavis/amavis-20060728T101157-07002/email.txt > amavisd-n 7002 amavis 6u IPv4 92321291 UDP *:41070 > amavisd-n 7002 amavis 7u IPv4 92321247 TCP > localhost:10024->localhost:58311 (CLOSE_WAIT)
> elm:~# strace -p 7002 > Process 7002 attached - interrupt to quit > recvfrom(11, What does lsof report on socket 11? > I have looked at several of the lsof reported email.txt files and > haven't seen anything interesting there. I have run a manual expiry on > the Bayes database several times. I have tried disabling AWL. I have > tried disabling all plugins in init.pre. No help there. I have also > tried running amavisd via 'amavis debug-sa'. However when I do this it > usually takes at least a day for the first child to hang, leaving a > mountain of data to sift through. The only time I managed to get both > children to fail in this mode, the last debug messages were as follows. > > debug: leaving helper-app run mode > debug: Running tests for priority: 500 SA priority 500 seems to deal with collecting DNS responses: use constant HARVEST_DNSBL_PRIORITY => 500; Could be a Net::DNS problem (try upgrading the module), or your dns resolver problem. > amavisd-new 20030616p10-5 > spamassassin 3.0.3-2sarge1 > postfix 2.1.5-9 > razor 2.670-1sarge2 > pyzor 0.4.0+cvs20030 > dcc 1.2.74-2 > kernel-image 2.4.27-10sarge See if SA 3.1.3 or 3.1.4 fixes the problem. If it does, it probably does not pay off to troubleshoot further. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would really like to find a > better solution that hourly postfix/amavisd restarts via cron. No need to restart Postfix, just restart amavisd if you must. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
