popb4 running amok ?

[Voytek E. <li...@sb...>]

Hello,

I have been using, with no problems, pop b4 smtp, many thanks,
on RH7.3, Postfix 2.1, perl v5.6.1 built for i386-linux

# /usr/sbin/pop-before-smtp --version
version: 1.38

few days ago, I noticed 'server overload' - extremely slow webmail respon=
se

probing for clues, I saw most of my free memory chewed up, and, numerous
'syslogd' session, numerous 'user apache perl sessions'

I eventually killed apache and the system was OK again

today, I again got 'heavy load' (though, not as bad as last time)

as far as I can tell, user apache perl process was the culprit:

# ps wax -o cmd |grep [p]erl
/usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/sbin/pop-before-smtp
--daemon=3D/var/run/pop-before-smtp.pid

how can I indentify whatever is causing this 'runaway' ?

BTW, I also have a 'newer' perl build, 5.8.8

-------------------
# cd /usr/local/bin
# ls perl*
perl  perl5.8.6  perl5.8.8  perlbug  perlcc  perldoc  perlivp
# ./perl --version
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i686-linux
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does it make sense to edit the 'perl' line in pop-b4-smtp to use the
more-recent perl build ?

----------------------------------------------------------
PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
4368 apache    20   0  3356 3348  1120 R    62.7  0.3  75:48 perl

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 7099 apache    20   0  3880 3288  1516 R    98.8  0.3  1633m perl




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Voytek