[imp] run away ispell processes

[Shawn Robinson]

At 06:45 PM 2002/04/17 -0400, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
>Quoting Jeff Tucker <jefft@wciatl.com>:
>
> > I'm definitely experiencing it and had to disable spell checking on my
> > system because of it. I routinely got these runaway ispells using as
> > much processor time as possible.
>
>Well, we need feedback from people who can actually reproduce the
>problem...
>
>-chuck

Did this one get resolved?  I can't find the solution.

Seems to be a pipe control issue of some sort.  The httpd process that 
starts the 'echo $string | /usr/locla/bin/ispell ' starts growing 
uncontrollably, (in my case it has eaten up close to 1.5GB before I've 
killed it).  After 'kill -9'ing the httpd process, the associate ispell 
process starts taking up the CPU, when trussing it, you can see that it's 
trying to write to the pipe, and is receiving a SIGPIPE, and looping 
uncontrollably.  Then, after a 'kill' on the ispell process, httpd takes 
it's turn at sucking up the CPU cycles.  After you kill on that httpd 
process, you're happy again, until next time.
I lost my truss data, but I can send it on next time it happens.

Details:
    Solaris 8 kernel 13
    (CVS from May2x,2002ish)
     Horde: 2.1-cvs
     IMP: 3.1-cvs (run IMP tests)
     Turba: 1.1-cvs

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Regards,
Shawn Robinson