Re: [AMaViS-user] Runaway process?

[Mark M. <Mar...@ij...>]

TJ,

| I am working on implementing amavisd-new on my domain and had done some
| testing and it was working great.  yesterday I put it into a production
| environment (causing it to get 100's more emails per hour) and after it
| runs for awhile a process seems to hang and eats up nearly 100% of my
| memory and causes the mail queue to start backing up.

Memory? (not CPU?) And eventually fails due to exceeded virtual memory?
The last time I saw it was with an old version of SA (before 2.63)
and an older Perl (5.8.0 I suppose) - there was a bug in Encode::encode
which ate memory when it saw tainted variable.

| Any suggestions
| as to what may be causing this and what I can do to fix it?  Before the
| process "hangs" it runs great and mail is processed VERY quickly.

You may want to run with log level 5 for a while and try to catch it
in the act - to tell whether it happens within a call to SpamAssassin,
or elsewhere. If using SA older that 2.63, or Perl older that 5.8.1,
please upgrade them first.

  Mark