[SOLVED] Very high load when ispcp-pysieved-mngr runs?

[robmorin]

Hello all, its been a while since my last post, as everythgin has been workign great for a long time...

Hats off to the dev team!

However lately i have been experiencing some high loads on one of my servers, when i go look with htop i see teh CPU at 100% for ....

15746 10638 vmail 20 0 6808 1216 840 S 100. 0.0 - 0:00.00 pop3
and

100. 0.3 - 0:00.14 /usr/bin/perl -I /var/www/ispcp/engine/ /var/www/ispcp/engine/ispcp-pysieved-mngr

Not sure what i should be looking at to see why these processes are taking so much CPU? There are normally a dozen or so processes of each one running at at 100% cpu

My version of ISPCP is ispCP 1.0.0 RC7 OMEGA

Any help appreciated..

Thanks
Rob
Montreal, Canada

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After looking further i see this in the logs....

Aug 12 11:54:31 joe dovecot: login: Login request missing a file descriptor
Aug 12 11:54:31 joe dovecot: login: Login request missing a file descriptor
Aug 12 11:54:32 joe dovecot: auth(pysieved): dovecot: ispcp-pysieved-mngr[1649]: running ...
Aug 12 11:54:32 joe dovecot: auth(pysieved): dovecot: ispcp-pysieved-mngr[1650]: running ...
Aug 12 11:54:32 joe dovecot: auth(pysieved): dovecot: ispcp-pysieved-mngr[1652]: running ...
Aug 12 11:54:32 joe dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Aug 12 11:54:32 joe dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now
Aug 12 11:54:32 joe dovecot: auth(pysieved): dovecot: ispcp-pysieved-mngr[1655]: running ...
Aug 12 11:54:32 joe dovecot: auth(pysieved): dovecot: ispcp-pysieved-mngr[1651]: running ...

[robmorin]

I also see the same user in the log file(mail.err) 1000's of times with this entry in a given hour

dovecot: auth(pysieved): dovecot: ispcp-pysieved-mngr[13966]: olga@domain.com checking password comparison for xxxx vs xxxx

Of course i changed the domain name and passwd to be safe....

what would cause that??? Today alone so far i see 64,309 entries for that user? Does each entry correspond to a login attempt?

Thanks..

[robmorin]

Ok so ti turned out once i got that person to close her email client all was well... so i am good now, she was connecting 24,000 times per hour, must have been a virus or something....

Have a good one all...

Rob
Montreal, Canada