MS killing CPU

[Mike Kercher]

Hendrik den Hartog wrote:
> Recently our MS machine has been grinding to a halt. You can't 'get'
> to it, won't respond to pings etc. These periods have lasted several
> hours. In the past,it has eventually been 'springing' back to life of
> its own accord, allowing me to get a quick look. TOP showed
> occassionally a MS child hogging 100% CPU. Also we've had some SA
> timeouts recently.
>
> Currently its down, been down for over 12 hours now, seems I may have
> to go visit this machine to recusitate it.
>
> P4, 640 MegRam, MS v 4.33.3-1 (IIRC), SA v2.60, 2 child processes.
> Using DCC, and RAZOR2.
> Only recent change to the config is introducing eTRUST (to 'work'
> with SophosSAVI).
>
> Once back up, is there anything I should check? disable? test?
> change? in order to solve this problem?
>
> Any help/advise appreciated.
>
> Cheers!
> Hendrik
>
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Are you running bigevil.cf?  What are the contents of
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Mike

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