high load average -> slow builds

[Daniel Berlin]

+Frédéric 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 <jifl@jifvik.org> wrote:
> 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
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