Here's an interesting observation

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Sat Jan 24 01:30:04 GMT 2009


Quoting Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>:

> on 1-23-2009 9:54 AM Steve Campbell spake the following:
> > I've been fighting this for a while now. I don't know if my SA timeouts
> > are gone, but:
> > 
> > I removed the KAM rules, and a backlog of mail processed really fast. I
> > haven't had a SA timeout in more than 30 minutes, and before removal,
> > they were happening about every 3 minutes.
> > 
> > steve
> > 
> Maybe there is a complex regex in the kam rules that is playing havoc on
> your
> perl version in CentOS 3. I remember having issues when I ran perl 5.8.0
> with
> some regex processing.
> 
> It might also explain why so many of the perl modules didn't compile.
> 
> Might be time to think about migrating the servers to something newer.
> 
I totally agree here with upgrading, but don't see a way to do it immediately. I
suspect that KAM definitely had something to do with the problem based on the
way the server reacted after removing KAM.

Now here's the catch. This is the same Perl that ran KAM rules two upgrades ago
when the server ran just fine. The only thing that changed was the version of
MS, which had the modules installation problems, I think a new version of SA,
and the addition of multiple SARE rules due to the ease of the new update-sa
(sa-update?). I removed the SARE rules and that didn't resolve anything. Quite a
lot, I realize.

So I'm thinking either old KAM doesn't work well with new SA, or KAM doesn't
work well with the combination of new Perl modules plus the old ones that stuck
around either due to install failures or just plain ole KAM doesn't mesh with
the new MS.

Regardless of the problem's cause, I'm just happy to have a smooth run MS server
now. I've learned a lot during this trial, and hope it helps others who may be
running Centos 3 and KAM. It's also an alert for maybe other older Centos
distros also.

steve



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