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On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 05:45:17PM -0600, Daniel Bentley wrote:
> sympa.pl is continually running around 25% CPU usage, and 78% memory
> usage.  Process has been stopped and restarted (sympa.pl had to be
> killed with a -s 9, however), machine has even been rebooted, to no
> avail.

It sounds like maybe the sympa distribute daemon is dying.

After you restart sympa, have you confirmed that you still have two sympa.pl 
processes running?

What version of sympa are you running?

> 
> Incoming mails are received and I see "delivered to command:
> /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue" in mail logs.  However, the emails show up
> in /var/spool/sympa/msg and sit there with no further action.  Sympa
> was running fine earlier today, no changes were made by either
> myself or any other admin.
> 
> Any suggestions...?