Michael Sprague wrote:
> Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:41:16PM -0400, Michael Sprague wrote:
> > [...]
> >> by now. An strace doesn't show anything useful except that the process
> >> isn't doing much of anything:
> >>
> >> strace -f -p 29676
> >> Process 29676 attached - interrupt to quit
> >> select(10, [9], NULL, NULL, {2177, 130000}
> >>
> >> it looks like it's waiting for something, but how do I determine what?
> >> This is becoming a big issue as I have to kill exim once in a while to
> >> clean things up but it will eventually fill up again.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any pointers.
> >
> > use lsof or similar to identify -- in this case -- file
> > descriptor #9 (presumably a socket or pipe), and see what
> > clues that gives you. Connect to the process with gdb and
> > get a backtrace, to see where it's getting stuck.
>
> How could I forget about the power of lsof. :(
>
> lsof showed it was stuck waiting for spamd. I know where the issue is
> now. Thanks for your help.
Yes, version 4.50 has a timeout bug in the spam acl code. It will
hang around for an hour IIRC. I don't think I ever found out what
caused spamd to lock up.
Ian
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Ian Freislich
