It could be a DOS attempt on the SMTP server but I can't tell unless protocol logging 
is enabled.  Sometimes a DOS attack on an SMTP server consists of holding the 
connections open until the server cannot handle additional requests.

Regards,

Howie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Garrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:36 PM
Subject: [iMS] SMTP server stuck in loop


> 
> Howie,
> 
> This morning I found the SMTP server stuck in some sort of loop, running
> 99% CPU. I could see memory for the process cycling up and down during
> this occurance. I tried Pausing the process via the configurator, then
> tried to Stop the process via the configurator with no apparent effect. 
> I got called away for about 40 minutes, when I got back the SMTP process
> was gone and the configurator showed it as stopped. The SMTP log entries
> showed:
> 
> 12/16/2003 09:10:35 AM [1025] WARNING: Server paused - 1 active threads
> 12/16/2003 09:11:11 AM [1026] WARNING: Server paused - 1 active threads
> 12/16/2003 09:11:21 AM [1025] WARNING: Server paused - 1 active threads
> 
> And the above lines showed in the middle of processing two emails.
> The email on this server is fairly slow right now, about 1400/day.
> I have not cut everything over to this server fromt he old just in 
> case something like this happened.
> 
> Any ideas?
> The SMTP server version is 2.6
> 
> Btw, This is the first time I have seen this since I first installed roughly
> 6 weeks ago.
> 
> Steve
> 
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