Runaway Maildrop processes

[Marc]

Hey there,

Just upgraded a test box to 4.08 and all went well with the exception of maildrop spawning a bunch of processes. I vaguely remember something about this in the mailing list but can't seem to find it now and can't seem to track down what the root of the problem is (it is out of the ordinary yes?). Can anyone hit me with a clue-stick?

4018 vpopmail  63   0  8288K  7924K RUN      0:34 13.33% 13.33% maildrop
3761 vpopmail  63   0 10268K  6360K RUN      0:56 12.84% 12.84% maildrop
3998 vpopmail  63   0  8320K  6972K RUN      0:34 12.31% 12.30% maildrop
4436 vpopmail  63   0  5092K  3948K RUN      0:09 12.65% 12.21% maildrop
3795 vpopmail  63   0 10044K  5964K RUN      0:54 12.11% 12.11% maildrop
4220 vpopmail  63   0  6744K  6380K RUN      0:20 12.03% 12.01% maildrop
4556 vpopmail  63   0  4164K  2788K RUN      0:05 15.09% 10.99% maildrop

Thanks,
Marc

[matt]

You have some very large messages in your queue, most likely because during the upgrade, you didn't comment out the perl processes while upgrading Perl.  Remove the offending messages from the queue.

Matt