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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Hi Folks,

Fixed it, by the simple expedient of cleaning out queues manually. I 
expect something about some message was choking Sympa.

Still... for future reference... any thoughts on how to identify a 
specific message that might be causing problems - through higher levels 
of logging, location in a specific queue, specific error messages, etc.?

Thanks,

Miles

On 1/1/16 6:54 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> 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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