FreeBSD 6.3 update and process freeze

[Julian H. Stacey]

Dirk Meyer wrote:
> Gil Bidon schrieb:,
> 
> > Since i've updated my machine to FreeBSD 6.3 some process randomly start
> > using 100% CPU or are locked to STOP state (in top).
> > 
> > Is there a known solution / patch ? Except the rollback :)
> 
> I see this for mail/antivirus-milter too.
> But I have not been able to trace it down,
> the machine is remote and locks up fully.
> On normal load it runs fine,
> Maybe an resource-limit is not enforced?
> 
> It looks similar to the nagios thread problem.
> 
> kind regards Dirk

Watch out for evil mailman !
Default settings in crontab have locked up servers for 5 years 
http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/gen/mail/mailman/

Julian
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