In message <wkbswe47cb.fsf@idris.laine.org>, Laine Stump writes:
>This has been the case on my system ("RealPC", i386) for several
>months. Ted did "some stuff" to the code awhile back, but it didn't
>help my situation - once it starts up, dhclient gets its lease, then
>continues using 95% of CPU until I kill it.

I believe RealPC is the same code, so it's probably their fault.

>Are you sure it's random, or is the server giving you a very long
>lease time (the lease times I get from RCN's cable service really are
>in the 20 year range).

It varies by a fair amount.

If it's happening to you too, I think it's time to build with debugging and
start testing.  ;)

-s