I have seen this before when dns was setup wrong.
ie host not resolving.
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:49:00 +0100
> From: Cajus Pollmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: vchkpw eats 99% of cpu time
>
> Hi all!
>
> I've got a little [well it grows ;-)] problem with vchkpw. Thats my setup:
>
> qmail 1.03 + qmailqueue-patch
> scan4virus 0.94
> vpopmail 4.9.8
> ucspi-tcp 0.88
> daemontools 0.70
>
> Starting with svscan with something like this in
> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3/run:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> HOSTNAME=`hostname -f`
> exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 20000000 \
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \
> 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup $HOSTNAME \
> /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ./Maildir/ 2>&1
>
> In 90% of all cases popping the mails works fine. The other 10% create a
> vchkpw process consuming 99% cpu time, staying there till I send a SIGKILL.
>
> Any solutions for this scenario?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Cajus
>
