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[Christoph Holtermann <address@concealed>]

I experienced a similar behaviour where sympa just started to catch more and
more memory and the whole system went dysfunctional. I had to remove the
message from /var/spool/sympa/msg manually. It was about 30MB. After that
everything went fine again.

I found this kind of error message repeated multiple times:
Sep 21 07:40:57 host sympa[29738]: Can't create new process in safefork:  
Sep 21 07:40:57 host sympa[29738]: Exiting. 
Sep 21 07:40:57 host sympa[29738]: tools::safefork() Can't create new
process in safefork: Nicht genügend Hauptspeicher verfügbar 
Sep 21 07:41:27 host last message repeated 2 times

in between some of these:
Sep 21 20:49:26 host sympa[18012]: "smtpto" konnte keinen Kanal öffnen: Zu
viele offene Dateien 
Sep 21 20:49:26 host sympa[18012]: Exiting. 

I'm running debian wheezy package
ii  sympa                            6.0.1+dfsg-4+squeeze2                 
      Modern mailing list manager

regards,

Christoph Holtermann