Re: exim problems

[Phil Brutsche <pbrutsch@tux.creighton.edu>]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Symptoms:
>
> 1) exim is churning away with 20-40% cpu usage and load between 1 and 2
> on an otherwise unladen machine
>
> 2) my exim logs are growing huge; tail -f shows several new entriers
> per second saying "message frozen"

[...]

> Anyone know what's going on?

Frozen messages are those that could not be delivered and require human
intervention to get them out of the queue.

Exim will very easily to what you describe if you have a massive number
(on the order of tens of thousands) of frozen messages in the queue.

The next step is to find out why those messages froze, and fix the
problem.

For future reference, you can run "/usr/sbin/exiwhat" as root to find out
what Exim is doing.

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