Sudden rise in server load - Cpanel realperlinstaller

[tank]

A few days ago I noticed a sudden rise in server load on my box and started investigating what could be the problem. It appears that somewhere cPanel alloed a upgrade of CPAN that broke some things and cause an infinite loop in perl as shown in the services list of "realperlinstaller" that was eating up 110% of the server CPU.

I searched around and finally got something to fix my box. After looking into things further I found the following post which seems to come from cPanel themselves and is probable the place to start.

http://www.eth0.us/cpanel-perl-fix

BTW: I have not seen this problem in my VPS. Perhaps Jag has allready upgraded those plans.

[Vin DSL]

Good job, Detective!

http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3710

It looks like <= 1.80 || >= 1.82 works, e.g. 1.81 = evil.

I just checked the server I'm on, and it reports 1.83 as the version, so I guess 'we' are safe.

cpan -v
/usr/bin/cpan script version 0.00, CPAN.pm version 1.83