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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Hi Steve,  see inline

On 1/1/16 11:21 PM, Steve Shipway wrote:
> Which version of Sympa?

6.1.20, w/ your patches to handle DMARC
> This question came up a few weeks back with someone else.  I mentioned then 
> that I had only experienced the problem myself when running 6.1.x with an 
> outdated MIME::Charset perl module (prior to 1.11.3), which was unable to 
> decode a message subject line containing MIME-encoded accented characters.  
> Soji also mentioned this as a fixed issue.

That could be it, since I haven't updated in a while.
> Other people mentioned that it can be caused by file system full and similar.
>
> Your issue looks like a process stuck in a busy Disk-Wait state and new 
> processes being spawned to replace it... not like my problem.  You might like 
> to shut down Sympa and run an fsck on your /var filesystem (or wherever Sympa 
> is living)
>
> Soji mentioned about unreapable zombies of bulk.pl -- which sounds like this. 
>  He says it is likely fixed in 6.2.12
>
> See Soji's message of 16/12/15 in the mailing list archives for the full 
> details
Thanks for pointers.

Best,

Miles

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