DOOM: High CPU and timeouts with "spamd child" and spamass-milter
So, in my ongoing series on Weird Problems Google Didn't Help With I give you the following problem. Our trusty mail server has Postfix passing mail to spamass-milter. Alas, something goes wrong. Although logs show spamd returning a result postfix complains about connections timing out. Logs point to a SMFIC_BODYEOB error. What the? /var/spool/mail.log: Jun 27 19:26:02 myhost spamd[10058]: spamd: clean message (-2.9/5.0) for spamass-milter:117 in 7.1 seconds, 959 bytes. Jun 27 19:26:02 myhost spamd[10058]: spamd: result: . -2 - ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,TVD_SPACE_RATIO scantime=7.1,size=959,user=spamass-milter,uid=117,required_score=5.0,rhost=localhost,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=42711,mid= ,bayes=0.000000,autolearn=ham Jun 27 19:30:55 myhost postfix/cleanup[15798]: warning: milter unix:/spamass/spamass.sock: can't read SMFIC_BODYEOB reply packet header: Connection timed out Jun 27 19:30:55 myhost postfix/qmgr[2757]: 8CD3F58: from= , size=1100, nrcpt=1 (queue active)...