Here's an interesting graph of the affect it had on load:
http://mc4.midcoast.com/mrtg/load.html
Took a while for load to subside after fixing it due to the backlog of email
to process.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:12:45PM -0400, jp wrote:
> I've had the problem happen starting Sunday morning with an automatic
> sa-update.
> (I have until Sunday had it automatically sa-compile and restart after an
> update)
>
> It affected various 64 bit machines; we only use 64 bit OSs on AMD64 quad and
> hex core machines. I use the Suse factory provided desktop kernels.
>
> Opensuse 10.3, perl 5.8.8, SA 3.3.1, re2c 0.13.5
> 4x Opensuse 11.3, perl v5.12.1, SA 3.3.1, re2c-0.13.5-29.1.x86_64
>
> My computers ran out of ram as a few of the spamd processes were using up 2GB
> of
> ram each and not stopping, even with timeouts specified on the spamd startup.
> I
> could watch the processes keep growing and not dying in top.
>
> I turned off the automatic updating, restored from a recent backup
> /var/lib/spamassassin/, sa-compiled, and it's working great.
>
> I'll wait for word that the stuff distributed via sa-update is fixed.
>
> -Jason
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:57:00AM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> > There are now reports, that this bug is not strictly related to 32 bit
> > architecture (though always with compiled rules).
> >
> > Since there have been offers for further testing: One data point is to
> > collect details about systems, CPU architecture, instruction set used
> > for compiling, versions (OS, kernel, compiler, re2c, Perl) and patch-
> > level.
> >
> > Another might be to reproduce the issue, and get a minimal test-case.
> >
> > For that, can you reproduce the problem with trivial REs for the three
> > __PILL_PRICE_x sub-rules?
> >
> > Can you reproduce the problem by keeping (a renamed copy of) the
> > original sub-rules and tflags, using a simple meta rule? Are two of them
> > sufficient? Or even one?
> >
> >
> > --
> > char
> > *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0.@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
> > main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8?
> > c<<=1:
> > (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0;
> > }}}
>
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