[gentoo-user] Spamassassin

[Steve [Gentoo]]

I have (the latest) spamassassin 3.1.0 (on Perl 5.8.7) installed on my 
not-extremely-powerful small-scale Gentoo server (P2-450 with 256Mb RAM 
and 500Mb swap - not running X) and I'm experiencing a recurring 
fault... I'm running spamd and using the spamassassin client to 
re-direct email to it from my systemwide procmail setup (using the 
recommended | /usr/bin/spamc -f approach with a size limiter to avoid 
over-burdening spamassassin with any massive emails.)

Everything seems to work well for a fair while, then the spamd process 
gets "wedged" - and in spite of there being a near-0 load, and dozens 
and dozens of messages reported by mailq, none of my mail gets processed 
in a hurry - and after a long while (maybe every half-an-hour, say) an 
email is delivered from the head of my mail queue - which has not passed 
through spamd (according to the headers) - and has no spam-score attached.

I read some suggestions a long while ago which said that "--round-robin" 
as an option was a work-around for a bug with the same consequences.  
My  /etc/conf.d/spamd currently has the options:

SPAMD_OPTS="-m 5 -c -H -l --round-robin"

However, I still get this problem.  I thought that it was related to the 
length of time the spamd process had been running - so I set a cron job 
to re-start the server at an unusual time early every morning... but 
this hasn't been an successful work around either.  It now seems that to 
be triggered by an increased system load - today I ran

# emerge apache squirrelmail

then left... when I returned the emerge had long-since completed by my 
spamd remained "stuck."

Is this a problem everyone is having?  I had no problem like this with 
the elder (3.0.4) version of spamassassin I had installed previously on 
the same hardware.
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