spamd issue - dies on prefork in perl

[hanasaki]

anyone ever see the below?  The process ends up needing a kill -9 and
then /etc/init.d/spamd start


Mar 15 17:12:26 cognition spamd[10348]: prefork: child states: IIB
Mar 15 17:12:30 cognition spamd[10348]: prefork: syswrite(6) failed,
retrying... at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm
line 554.
Mar 15 17:13:05 cognition last message repeated 7 times
Mar 15 17:14:10 cognition last message repeated 13 times
Mar 15 17:15:00 cognition last message repeated 10 times
Mar 15 17:15:05 cognition spamd[10348]: prefork: syswrite(6) failed,
retrying... at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm
line 554.