[imp] run away ispell processes

[Mark G. Thomas]

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 08:01:33AM -0600, Shawn Robinson wrote:
> 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.

I'm also experiencing it here.  Exactly same symptoms as described
below.  I'm running Solaris-8, imp-3.0, horde-2.0, turba-1.0.  I eagerly
await any suggestions about how to resolve this.  Ever since my users
got a taste of spell checking they have been bugging me to enable it again...

- Mark Thomas

> 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
> 
>     View phpinfo() screen
>     PHP Version: 4.1.2
>     PHP Major Version: 4.1
>     PHP Minor Version: 2
>     PHP Version Classification: release
>     You are running a supported version of PHP.
> 
>  PHP Module Capabilities
> 
>     FTP Support: No
>     Gettext Support: Yes
>     IMAP Support: Yes
>     LDAP Support: Yes
>     MCAL Support: No
>     Mcrypt Support: No
>     MySQL Support: Yes
>     PostgreSQL Support: No
>     XML Support: Yes
> 
> PEAR - Yes
>     Recent PEAR - Yes
>     Mail::RFC822 - Yes
>     Log - Yes
>     DB - Yes
> 
> Regards,
> Shawn Robinson
> 
> 
> 
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