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[Riccardo Veraldi <address@concealed>]

Hello,
lately the fcgi process of sympa eats a lot of CPU

top - 12:28:26 up 9 days, 11:24,  1 user,  load average: 1.90, 1.10, 0.64
Tasks:  86 total,   4 running,  82 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 99.7%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.0%si,  
0.0%st
Mem:   2059084k total,  1913984k used,   145100k free,   417284k buffers
Swap:  4192956k total,        0k used,  4192956k free,   880504k cached

 PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  
COMMAND          
12213 sympa     25   0  254m  85m 4876 R 50.0  4.3   1:03.30 
wwsympa.fcgi      
12223 sympa     25   0  254m  84m 4876 R 50.0  4.2   1:09.36 wwsympa.fcgi

any hints on how can I find out how come this happens ?

I have plenty of entries like this in the ssl error log and the www 
interfae of sympa is not responding

[Fri Oct 29 12:26:55 2010] [error] [client 87.2.236.48] FastCGI: comm 
with server "/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi" aborted: idle timeout 
(30 sec), referer: https://lists
[Fri Oct 29 12:26:55 2010] [error] [client 87.2.236.48] FastCGI: 
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server 
"/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi", referer: https://lists
[Fri Oct 29 12:27:04 2010] [error] [client 87.2.236.48] FastCGI: comm 
with server "/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi" aborted: idle timeout 
(30 sec), referer: https://lists
[Fri Oct 29 12:27:04 2010] [error] [client 87.2.236.48] FastCGI: 
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server 
"/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi", referer: https://lists
[Fri Oct 29 12:27:44 2010] [error] [client 87.2.236.48] FastCGI: comm 
with server "/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi" aborted: idle timeout 
(30 sec), referer: https://lists
[Fri Oct 29 12:27:44 2010] [error] [client 87.2.236.48] FastCGI: 
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server 
"/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi", referer: https://lists
[Fri Oct 29 12:27:44 2010] [error] [client 87.2.236.48] FastCGI: comm 
with server "/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi" aborted: idle timeout 
(30 sec), referer: https://lists
[Fri Oct 29 12:27:44 2010] [error] [client 87.2.236.48] FastCGI: 
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server 
"/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi", referer: https://lists
[Fri Oct 29 12:27:52 2010] [error] [client 87.2.236.48] FastCGI: comm 
with server "/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi" aborted: idle timeout 
(30 sec), referer: https://lists
[Fri Oct 29 12:27:52 2010] [error] [client 87.2.236.48] FastCGI: 
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server 
"/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi", referer: https://lists
[Fri Oct 29 12:27:53 2010] [error] [client 87.2.236.48] FastCGI: comm 
with server "/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi" aborted: idle timeout 
(30 sec), referer: https://lists
[Fri Oct 29 12:27:53 2010] [error] [client 87.2.236.48] FastCGI: 
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server 
"/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi", referer: https://lists



thank you

Rick