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Author: Michael Sprague
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] "all spamd servers failed" after updating to spamassassin 3.1.7-1
Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:24:15 +0200, Ian FREISLICH <if@???>
> wrote:
>> Marc, how often do you get this message?
>
> not any more, I was being stupid.
>
>> If it's easy to duplicate,
>> perhaps the output of tcpdump on your loopback interface might help.
>> Also, what does the SA child process state look like? Ours look
>> like 'IIBIIIIBIIIIIIBIBIIIIIIIIIIIII' most of the time, but at the
>> times you get this message, I'd expect 'BBBBB' - all children busy.
>> This should be easy to verify in your logs.
>
> |[4/503]mh@torres:~$ grep "child states" /var/log/syslog/syslog| cut -d\  -f6- | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
> |    522 prefork: child states: II
> |     40 prefork: child states: IB
> |     11 prefork: child states: BI
> |      6 prefork: child states: III
> |      6 prefork: child states: BB
> |      5 prefork: child states: BBI
> |      4 prefork: child states: BII
> |      3 prefork: child states: IBI
> |      1 prefork: child states: IBB
> |[5/504]mh@torres:~$ 


I just re-read this thread in the archives so I don't think this
question has already been asked. :)

Does anyone know where to find the definitions of the 'child states' in
spamd? I've looked around but have not been able to find anything.

thanks,
mikeS

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