From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13942 invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2013 18:31:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 13931 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Jan 2013 18:31:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from virtual.bogons.net (HELO virtual.bogons.net) (193.178.223.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:30:59 +0000 Received: from jifvik.dyndns.org (jifvik.dyndns.org [85.158.45.40]) by virtual.bogons.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.2) with ESMTP id r0FIUwm27784; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:30:58 GMT Received: from shurg.barn.ecoscentric.com (unknown [87.127.120.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jifvik.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 723F23FE2; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:30:57 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <50F5A060.80003@jifvik.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:31:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Fedora/3.1.16-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Meyering Cc: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: high load average -> slow builds References: <87txqiltrg.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <50F59F01.3000106@jifvik.org> In-Reply-To: <50F59F01.3000106@jifvik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2013-q1/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 On 15/01/13 18:25, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > > Also: > SENDER=gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org > which implies bugzilla was the one sending the mail. > > Has the script got stuck, perhaps sending ever larger email in a loop? Or > is someone abusing it? Doh, I missed this obvious process in the 'ps' output: bugzilla 25675 0.0 0.0 1356 284 ? S 17:31 0:00 bin/qmail-local -- bugzilla /sourceware/bugzilla bugzilla-gcc - gcc sourceware.org gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org |bouncesaying "No forwarding information (#5.2.1)" So it looks a lot like someone (probably, inadvertently, a spammer) has fabricated a mail which has caused gcc bugzilla's email interface to get stuck in a loop of ever larger mails. Whoever's managing the gcc bugzilla needs to a) work out how to kill it off so it won't just restart, and b) fix (or report) this flaw in the bugzilla email interface. Jifl -- --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine