https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=347200
User robin.listas@telefonica.net added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=347200#c8
--- Comment #8 from Carlos Robinson
we could not reproduce this problem
As I mentioned on #5, this bug is related to Bug 350980, or rather, it is triggered by that one. Unless you can't make that trigger, you will not see the spamd problem. When I investigated this bug, I found googling references to spamd zombi children, but that developpers found it very difficult to trigger and thus study. I can trigger it, but I lack the knowledge to study it: I know no perl, and I have no linux programming skills. The thing is like this. For some unknown reason (related to some patch added by suse/novell to the vainilla kernel) my computer (only when using opensuse 10.3/11.0) can stop computing for intervals that range from deciseconds to dozens of minutes, till an interrupt comes (keyboard, mouse, ethernet card packet...). It is like it goes into a sleep phase to save energy and everything stops till an interrupt comes and it is processed, but it also stops scheduled tasks that are not in a wait state: even the display freezes. When it awakes, the clock jumps. This is what Bug 350980 is about. As a side effect of this computing pause, if it catches a spamd child in the middle of its processing, when it finally runs again it discovers that several minutes have passed without some expected output from somewhere, times out, crashes or whatever it does, gets zombi, can not be killed, and you have the symptoms logged somewhere above in this report. Then yes, the trigger is external and not related to perl, spamc, spamd, SA. But also yes, there is a problem in perl, spamc, spamd, SA, that can not recover nicely from that strange situation. The problem is of small consequence, once the trigger is removed or bypassed. Nevertheless, there is a piece of code hidden somewhere that is bad, and which will show its head now and then. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.