Ray wrote: >> spamd: handled cleanup of child pid 19888 due to SIGCHLD >> spamd[5262]: prefork: child states: II
Ray, the one you want to look for is "prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it". If you see that, you may want to look at your free RAM and, well, consider using --max-CHILDREN. There have been posts here about how to do that properly (to summarise: gradually). Mike replied: > It's log noise. Nothing to be alarmed about. The signal notification could be relegated to a debug level but the second of those lines can be useful when diagnosing spamd's problems. Example: 20:39:53 prefork: child states: IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 20:39:59 prefork: child states: IBBBBBBIIIIIIIIIIIII 20:40:06 prefork: child states: BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:40:07 prefork: child states: BBBBBBIBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:40:09 prefork: child states: BBBBBBBIBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:40:10 prefork: child states: IBBBBBBBIBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:40:13 prefork: child states: BIBBBBBBBIBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:40:15 prefork: child states: BBBBIBBBBBIBBBBBIBBBIIIBI 20:40:18 prefork: child states: BBBBBBBBBBBIBIBIBBIIIBBBBB 20:40:22 prefork: child states: BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:40:31 prefork: child states: BBBIBBBBBBBBBBIBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:40:36 prefork: child states: BBBIBBBBBBBBBBIBBBBBBBBBBBBB This continues, until (columns removed to reduce line length): 20:51:41 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:51:43 BBBBBIBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:51:43 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:51:43 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:51:44 BBBBBBBBIBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:51:45 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:51:47 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:51:49 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 20:51:50 BIBBBBBBBBBBIBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBIB 20:51:52 BBBBBBBBBBBBBIIIBBBIBIBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB While this is going on, spamc is timing out and letting email through unchecked. spamd goes to some effort to not panic-spawn children, so I have circumvented it by reverting to the old algorithm via --round-robin. -- _________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Donkin Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand
