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Mutt Run Amok



After installing Leopard 10.5, Mutt has developed the nasty habit of running 
amok after some extended time of use (perhaps several hours, sometimes much 
longer).  

The key symptom is a massive ramp-up in process hogging, as illustrated below:  

Activity Monitor info:
Process ID 252  
CPU Usage hovering around 90%  
RSIZE: 13.5 MB
Virtual Memory: 682.91
Private Memory Size: 14.42
Parent Process: Bash (239)
Process Group: mutt (252)

Sample returns: Can't sample process 252 because it is running in Rosetta

Top command in Terminal shows mutt running as 252, but Terminal 'kill 252' does 
not kill mutt

The only way to kill is to force quit Mutt in Activity Monitor.

Activity Monitor shows Open Files and Ports:
/Users/bj
/sw/bin/mutt
/usr/libexec/oah/Shims/Interposers.dylib
/sw/lib/ncurses/libncurses.5.dylib
/sw/lib/libncursesw.5.dylib
/sw/lib/libintl.1.0.1.dylib
/sw/lib/libiconv.2.2.0.dylib
/usr/lib/libmx.A.dylib
/usr/lib/libstdc++.6.0.4.dylib
/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
/usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
/usr/lib/dyld
/private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_rosetta
/usr/libexec/oah/translate
/dev/ttys000
/dev/ttys000
/dev/ttys000
/Users/bj/muttmail/default

Any assistance would be appreciated.

bj