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.