[Spambayes] Intermittent SpamBayes crashes

[Joel M. Halpern]

It does appear that the error handling in SpamBayes is not the root problem 
(the intermittent connectivity is the root problem.)
However, it appears that the error handling in SpamBayes causes the server 
to get so confused that it damages critical parts of the system.  At least 
twice the system memory management tables were corrupted.
Because I often have weak connectivity, I have had redirect Eudora not to 
use SpamBayes.

Yours,
Joel


At 04:28 AM 11/24/2005, Tony Meyer wrote:
>>I have been getting intermittent crashes of SpamBayes.
>>I have attached the Server log that shows one such problem.
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>(Which shows an "invalid argument" socket error).
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>>Note that when I have such crashes, and then go to turn off my
>>computer, I get "interesting" error messages about problems in
>>Windows.  It is quite possible the problem is elsewhere in my
>>system, but extensive diagnostics do not show anything.
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>Do other programs that use the network connection have problems?
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>>The only other evidence I have is that the crashes were more
>>frequent last week when I had intermittent connectivity. (I was
>>using wireless at a meeting, and it was broken quite often.)
>[...]
>>Is there any way to tell if this is a SpamBayes bug or a problem on
>>my machine?
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>I've never seen this particular socket error before.  I'm not 100%,
>but my guess is that this is a problem with the network connection
>(which could be on your machine, or the device that's providing the
>connection, or the line, ...) and that SpamBayes isn't handling the
>error very well (it really ought to just ignore it and get on with it).
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>=Tony.Meyer
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