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["Malcolm Waltz" <address@concealed>]

I've seen this behavior with Sympa 6.0 when used with older browsers
(FireFox 2.5 and possibly IE7).  The issue I observed appeared to be a
client side problem (or probably a bug in the HTML/JavaScript), causing
the browser to get stuck in a loop requesting data from the server.
Closing the browser would temporarily resolve this issue.

I'm not sure if this was fixed in 6.0.1 or not.  I'm also not sure if
this is the same issue you are experiencing.  You may want to check your
http logs to see which browser versions are being used to access your
server.

-- Malcolm Waltz
Unix Systems Administrator III
Office of Information Technology
University of the Pacific

-----Original Message-----
From: address@concealed [mailto:address@concealed] On
Behalf Of Erik Olson
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:01 AM
To: Miles Fidelman
Cc: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] wwwsympa compute load?

On Thu, 20 May 2010, Miles Fidelman wrote:

> After installing 6.0.1, I notice the wwwsympa processes seem to eat up
a huge 
> amount of CPU cycles.  Restarting Apache brings my compute load back
to a 
> reasonable level.  Then, after a few interactive sessions w/ the Sympa

> interface, I'm running 4 wwwsympa processes, and each one is eating up
a 
> quarter of the available cyles - pinning computer load at 100%
>
> Is anybody else seeing this kind of behavior?  Is any of this tunable?

I have seen a similar issue very occasionally on my system.
I think it's a nasty bug, but no idea how to diagnose it.  It has 
something to do with authentication, because if the user in question who

is bringing causing the wwwsympa process to spike clears their cookies
on 
the browser (causing them to re-authenticate), it calms down and works. 
So far I've seen this two or three times since installing 6.0.1 last 
February.

Give it a try (clear cookies on your browser) and see if that fixes your

problem as well.

-- 
Erik Olson
Sent from my crusty old Linux box