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

[Christian Wyglendowski]

Thanks for the tip.  I'll send a SIGINT next time it happens and see
what I get.  I'll post to the list if I find anything interesting.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart D. Gathman [mailto:stuart at bmsi.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:37 AM
> To: Christian Wyglendowski
> Cc: pymilter at bmsi.com
> Subject: Re: [Pymilter] milter switching from 'poll' to 'RUN' state
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Christian Wyglendowski wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Haven't seen this.  However, sending a SIGINT might cause a 
> traceback to see where the loop is.  I suspect the loop is 
> trying to traverse a mangled MIME structure.  I have 
> encountered many screwy things 
> from all the worms and viruses.  I have always gotten an 
> exception, not a loop, however.
> 
> I have to run at the moment.  If SIGINT doesn't work, the 
> thing to work on is a way to get a traceback for looping milters.
> 
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