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spamassassin package

spamassassin crashes regularly

Bug #618080 reported by Chris Vanden Berghe
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spamassassin (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: spamassassin

Spamassassin crashes approximately once per day with the following error message in /var/mail/mail.err:

Aug 14 19:56:25 bobodioulasso spamd[12539]: spamd: fork: Cannot allocate memory at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1025.
Aug 14 19:59:19 bobodioulasso spamd[6395]: syswrite() to parent failed: Broken pipe at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm line 579.

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Chris Vanden Berghe (chris-vandenberghe-org) wrote :

I'm using version 3.3.1-1 of spamassassin

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

This is probably caused by running out of swap space. Is there any evidence of other processes failing? Is there additional swap space available when this happens?

Changed in spamassassin (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Chris Vanden Berghe (chris-vandenberghe-org) wrote :

Hi Scott,

Thanks, I have checked and I'm now convinced that the server indeed ran out of memory. It has no swap (never been necessary).

I have reduced the number of spamd (and apache) processes and everything looks ok now.

Thanks for your help,
Chris.

Changed in spamassassin (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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