Paolo, > I have a linux server with the latest version of amavisd and SpamAssassin. > Sometimes some mail cause amavisd child to hang. After that the server > stop delivering mail to recipient and increasing load of the server, and > i must kill amavisd child. > I have set the debug level og amavisd to 5, and what i see is that > processing mail is stopped after CALLING SA check: > > Sep 28 08:48:53 C015689-posta2 amavis[10934]: (10934-01) timer set to > 318 s for SA (was 478 s) > Sep 28 08:48:53 C015689-posta2 amavis[10934]: (10934-01) calling SA > parse, SA version 3.2.3, 3.002003, data as GLOB > Sep 28 08:48:53 C015689-posta2 amavis[10934]: (10934-01) CALLING SA check > > what can i do? I can't understand...
So what happens to a process 10934 afterwards (search for "\(10934-01\)" in the log). If eventually the control returns and the process continues (perhaps after several minutes, or after a timeout), then the reason for long processing time needs to be found in SpamAssassin. Similarly, if control never returns to amavisd (i.e. a process crashed), it did so in the SpamAssassin code, and a reason must be found there. The bet way to do it is to find the message causing a problem (e.g. stealing it from a Postfix queue, or from a temporary directory in use by the spinning amavisd process), and feed it manually to a command line spamassassin, with debugging enabled: # su vscan -c 'spamassassin -t -D <0.msg' Alternatively, the SpamAssassin logging could be enabled in the amavisd process: # amavisd debug-sa although this produces lots of output on stderr, which might be difficult to analyze. Possible reasons for long processing within amavisd are bayes auto-expiry runs, or some problematic regular expressions in rules, most likely in SARE rules. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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/
