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From: Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@mmj.dk>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:12:18 +0000
Subject: Re: mlmmj-send processes eating cpu
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* Nate Beaty <natebeaty@gmail.com> [Sep 16. 2006 20:29]:
> I noticed today my server was creeping along, and top shows multiple  
> mlmmj-send instances running:
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 12707 Debian-e  25   0  1700  656  576 R 19.8  0.1 343:26.36 mlmmj-send
> 19468 Debian-e  25   0  1700  660  576 R 18.1  0.1  10:11.16 mlmmj-send
>  8615 Debian-e  25   0  1712  676  584 R 17.8  0.1  29:10.13 mlmmj-send
> 19469 Debian-e  25   0  1700  656  576 R 16.8  0.1  10:10.91 mlmmj-send
>  8618 Debian-e  25   0  1704  664  576 R 16.5  0.1  29:10.66 mlmmj-send
> 
> Yesterday a client sent out newsletters to some large lists (some  
> over 20,000, most around 1-2,000) which seemed to go fine for the  
> most part. But now I have these mlmmj-send processes stuck eating all  
> my CPU. Any idea of why or how to troubleshoot this?
> 
> This is with the latest 1.2.12RC2 release, Exim4, dnsmasq.
> 
> Any help much appreciated. (And I still haven't gotten the new submod  
> tunable to work for me, either...)

Can you attach an strace to one of those, seing what it does?

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