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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Hi Folks,

Our server crashed the other day, and since restoring it, I've been 
having a rather perplexing (and debilitating) problem with sympa.

../sympa start
- all the processes start

within a few minutes:
- ../sympa status shows that sympa.pl has died ("sympa died, pid file 
remains")
- can't seem to find anything in the log file to explain things
- ps shows that sympa.pl is still running, but in state "D" 
(uninterruptable sleep)
- and, it seems to start eating up more and more CPU cycles (and maybe 
other resources)
- system load avg. starts climbing to the point of slowing the system to 
a crawl

I have to kill the process manually to restore everything else.

Any thoughts on what might be going on, or what I might do to diagnose 
things

Thanks!

Miles Fidelman

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In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra