On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:57:43PM -0700, Robert Spier wrote:
> > Has anyone else seen this behavior?  Our master qpsmtpd perl process
> > segfaults (i.e. not the children; but the parent) - it does spawn a
> > new 'master' process, so it has little direct effect on receiving
> > email; but it's getting annoying.  I've not yet been able to catch a
> > core dump of the segfault'ing perl.
> 
> Thats really odd.  Especially it being in the parent process.  Have
> you made any customizations?  The forkserver doesn't really do
> anything interesting in the parent except fork.

Nope.  No customizations to qpsmtpd-forkserver.  (To be clear, this is the
process that does the accept().  So, it actually does some work, I believe.)

Our server is under tremendous load because of the recent virus attacks.

> Also, what is spawning the new master?  That's not a forkserver thing.

It's running under djb's supervise.

> A core file or traceback would help a lot.

I'm trying to get a core dump; been unsuccessful so far.  -- justin

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