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
