RE: Dozens of qmail-smtpd processes eating 100% of CPU

["Seth Kurtzberg" <seth@cql.com>]

Be nice to attach to the borked running process (or one of the borked
running processes) and see what it is doing.  Is the trace program on
openbsd ptrace?  

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Kirk [mailto:alex.kirk@sourcefire.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:46 AM
To: qmail@list.cr.yp.to
Subject: Dozens of qmail-smtpd processes eating 100% of CPU

Hello All,


schnarff.com:/var/log/qmail/smtpd$ ps aux | grep -i 
qmail-smtpd


qmaild    6570 95.5  0.3   376  1416 ??  R     10:32AM    0:31.39 
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd


root     13548  0.0  0.1   260   336 ??  I     10:07AM    0:00.02 
supervise 
qmail-smtpd


qmaild    5794  0.0  0.1   316   500 ??  S     10:31AM    0:00.01 
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l schnarff.com -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 
50 -u 1012 -g 1005 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd       

I'd appreciate any information at all on what might be causing this, and 
will be more than happy to supply additional info as necessary to help 
diagnose.

Thanks,
Alex Kirk