From: Murray S. K. <ms...@se...> - 2006-04-25 18:06:19
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Steve McKenna wrote: > About two or three times a day, the SMTP server shows the following > behaviour which is only cured by restarting sendmail and the plugins: > - for just about every email that is received, sendmail's milter.c > starts reporting "timeout before data read" after a five minute timeout > waiting for a reply from the sid-milter plugin > - After many of the above timeouts, the sid-milter end of the > conversation starts reporting thread_create errors (from > libmilter/listener.c). After 16 consecutive thread_create errors, the > milter library aborts and the plugin closes down. > [...] What you're describing sounds like the filter has deadlocked, which is certainly a sign of a bug. However there's also a bug in libar that I just fixed which can also cause some unwanted timeouts, but it shouldn't cause this kind of failure. That fix will be in the next release. What OS are you using? |