On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Brett Gaspers wrote: > I'm running the latest ASSP version (1.9.1.8) and noticed recently > that there seems to be a persistent SMTP connection (according to the > EIMS connection statistics). The ASSP SMTP connections window doesn't > show any active SMTP connections. The number of current connections in > EIMS is always less than the peak, but never goes back to zero. > > When this is going on, the server CPU is getting hammered by perl (50% > utilization), when nothing should be happening. Quitting EIMS causes > the perl usage to temporarily go away (and resets current SMTP > connections to zero), but then it comes back later with the same > symptoms. > > Any ideas what is going on? The only SMTP hosts in the host list are > my mail server IP and 127.0.0.1, both whitelisted. I've played around > with the SMTP timeouts in ASSP and EIMS, but nothing seems to help. > I'm kind of suspicious that the loopback address may be the culprit, > since the number of connections shown in the host list is vastly less > for this than for the mail server IP. > Brett, I don't see that here. Maybe a mail loop? I'm on 1.9.1.9 Tom Circle The Wagons manage: //www.freelists.org/list/ctw post: mailto:ctw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx unsubscribe: mailto:ctw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe search: //www.freelists.org/archives/ctw faq: //www.freelists.org/wiki/the_faq