From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28047 invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2013 18:36:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 28018 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Jan 2013 18:36:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vb0-f52.google.com (HELO mail-vb0-f52.google.com) (209.85.212.52) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:36:24 +0000 Received: by mail-vb0-f52.google.com with SMTP id ez10so462690vbb.11 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:36:23 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=SBC/x0Hw+nBIo82KBLiG532t6BGSGg0v7ygcWq+z6ho=; b=g/b7RZWx+N+C/YIn2nma+qr+KeQ4ISTA1X/RJKnI9ThwegpO6AII9rDqLGVti5ZpnP LrVNagNHe15Z6dGBGJzRfUgAqiWsM098qN/QgDEOKz1RwABmO3Cbem/da3KNJ1jXTdsy adSA4LtkTNYFruN9G9Uv2/s8Md3Xjk88Zh7JOhex3tcIH4hVs5yFqTwt6te53PUrgx9Z yo1W/9DULudCeX6npn+XQXEL/I7oby06cHVVJzQ2aWBzYBsdIir6nRH2UEjyDXoGuNKD RH21SJUBn6Q5vh+vPpy4QUaS9fOp7Mxbok9l8t6mzSiw8Ia6LeDPssifYxzsN94fOd+v hedw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.172.195 with SMTP id be3mr95133332vdc.54.1358274983767; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:36:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.58.143.80 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:36:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50F5A060.80003@jifvik.org> References: <87txqiltrg.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <50F59F01.3000106@jifvik.org> <50F5A060.80003@jifvik.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:36:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: high load average -> slow builds From: Daniel Berlin To: Jonathan Larmour , LpSolit@netscape.net Cc: Jim Meyering , overseers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQngM+mspsiwy+4bMbqLisdwZkUNwkEOB7/Rv2GUDhOS5Fo3AMTnJsImLFTpmfL6CAMoR8Od 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/msg00016.txt.bz2 +Fr=E9d=E9ric Buclin Note, however, that he is blocked from upgrading bugzilla in general because of too old versions of various dependencies (python, perl, etc) On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > On 15/01/13 18:25, Jonathan Larmour wrote: >> >> Also: >> SENDER=3Dgcc-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=3D= =3Dmine