[Pymilter] milter switching from 'poll' to 'RUN' state

[Christian Wyglendowski]

Hi,

I have written a simple milter that strips attachments that usually
carry viruses (like the sample.py and bms.py milters do) and also
appends a warning to the body of emails that contain ZIP attachments.
It will run fine for hours and sometimes days at a time in the 'poll'
state (as viewed from the 'top' command) and consumes negligable CPU
time.  However, it always at some point switches to the 'RUN' state and
consumes as much of the CPU resources as it can.  It doesn't switch back
on its own.  I have to stop sendmail, stop the milter, and restart them
both to correct the problem.  Anyone else seeing this issue and/or have
any idea why it is happening?

Thanks,

Christian Wyglendowski
Network Administrator
Greenville College
618-664-7073