2.99.53's smtp

[Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com>]

Very strange after upgrading to 2.99.53:

  4:23pm  up 175 days,  8:04,  7 users,  load average: 1.69, 2.36, 2.72
167 processes: 128 sleeping, 3 running, 7 zombie, 29 stopped
CPU states: 59.4% user, 11.8% system,  0.1% nice, 29.6% idle
Mem:   95512K av,  91124K used,   4388K free,  41492K shrd,  19420K buff
Swap: 128484K av,  21800K used, 106684K free                 25524K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
17940 root      11   0  1588 1588   424 R       0 54.4  1.6   3:18 smtp
[...]

$ ps 17940
  PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
17940  ?  R    3:41 >[] MX-lookup: babbage.mingpaoxpress.com
$ host babbage.mingpaoxpress.com
babbage.mingpaoxpress.com has address 205.150.120.3
babbage.mingpaoxpress.com mail is handled (pri=0) by babbage.mingpaoxpress.com
babbage.mingpaoxpress.com mail is handled (pri=10) by mail.uunet.ca

The smtp TA will eventually time out and (incorrectly) use
the secondary MX. Is this a known problem?

Thanks,
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Ambrose Li                 <acli@mingpaoxpress.com>
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