segfault

[Simon Jones]

2009/1/23 Simon Jones <simonmjones at gmail.com>:
> 2009/1/23 Stephen Swaney <steve.swaney at fsl.com>:
>> Simon Jones wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,  having a bit of perfornace trouble with one of my mailscanner
>>> gateways and noticed the following in /var/log/messages - it's
>>> repeating quite a lot too.  I have exactly the same system running
>>> mailscanner OK in the same distributed configuration.
>>>
>>> o/s details;
>>>
>>> Centos 5 x64
>>> 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:46:53 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
>>> GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> error messages in /var/log/messages;
>>>
>>> Jan 23 10:45:07 mailgate1 kernel: MailScanner[20039]: segfault at
>>> 00007fffafc9df23 rip 00000039b78de8ad rsp 00007fffafc9dea0 error 6
>>> Jan 23 10:45:10 mailgate1 MailScanner: Process did not exit cleanly,
>>> returned 0 with signal 11
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>
>> Simon,
>>
>> I just saw the same problem yesterday but with a CentOS 4.7 system running
>> The current version of MailScanner. I ran `yum update` and rebooted and the
>> problem went away. Sorry but I haven't had time to investigate further to
>> see what was causing the problem. I may get around to it later today.
>>
>> Steve
>> --
>>
>> Steve Swaney
>> steve at fsl.com
>> www.fsl.com
>>
> ok thanks mate, I'm doing an update now - see if that sorts it.  has
> anyone else noticed a shed load more spam recently?  my gateway's are
> running full bore right now, they've been stable for month but the
> last couple o days has seen stacked hold queues and slow-ups which I
> can only really put down to sheer volume of spam being processed.
>

YUP, the update seems to have sorted the errors in /var/log/messages -
both gateways still running like a dog though.