Re: [webmin-l] /bin/sh -c (hostname)

[Victor T. <vic...@gm...>]

Jamie,
To me it seems as though mail_search.cgi and view_mail.cgi runs the
shell hostname process.  It is this hostname process that is taking
100%.  After a week or so, if I don't manually kill the hostname
processes, I'll have 4-5 processes all competing for 100% CPU.  What
could be causing this?  Is Webmin waiting for results from /bin/sh -c
(hostname) but never getting anything?  Perhaps my system isn't
properly configured in some way?

If it helps, I am running Gentoo (AMD64 SMP) and Webmin 1.250.  I
think it started when I upgraded to Webmin 1.230, and I was hoping
1.250 would fix it, but it hasn't.  I also upgraded some other
packages around the time of 1.230 as well, so I can't isolate that it
is being caused by Webmin.

Thanks,
Victor

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 9:06:00 1100, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote=
:
> Hi Victor,
> So is it the hostname process that is using up all the CPU time, or Webmi=
n's mail_search.cgi script? The hostname command is just called to get the =
system's name to display at the top (or bottom) of the page, but really sho=
uldn't be taking much time to run ..
>
> The mail_search.cgi script however could take a while, especially for a h=
uge mailbox or if it has a bug :-) What size mail file are you trying to se=
arch there?
>
>  - Jamie
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From:  Victor Trac <vic...@gm...>
> Subj:  Re: [webmin-l] /bin/sh -c (hostname)
> Date:  Mon 19 Dec 2005 8:14 am
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> To:  web...@li...
>
> Sorry, I guess it was hard to tell from my email, but I followed the
> parent PID of the shell processes and found that they were started by
> /usr/libexec/webmin/mailboxes/mail_search.cgi, which was launched by
> /usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf.  This
> correlates with the webmin mail reader timing out when I'm reading
> mail.  It only happens when I (or someone else on my box) is using
> webmin to read email.
>
>
> > ----
> > It might be helpful to find out which processes are causing the race
> > conditions and I use top for that. In your case, it's possible that it
> > isn't the shell process but something occurring within the shell.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
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