When exim is really loaded, it will start to generate _alot_ of zombies.
It is my secondary mailserver that hits the primary where the inetd has
been down for a day (I running exim from inetd on these).
The load average is moderate:
11:13am up 7 days, 22:47h, 13 users, load average: 0.09, 0.15, 0.15
Here is an process exerpt:
# ps uax|more
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
mail 24777 0.0 2.5 1292 780 ? S 10:58 0:00 exim -bs
mail 24779 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24781 0.0 2.5 1300 784 ? S 10:58 0:00 exim -bs
mail 24782 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24784 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24786 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24788 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24789 0.2 2.4 1288 776 ? S 10:58 0:00 exim -bs
mail 24791 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24793 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24796 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24798 0.0 2.5 1292 780 ? S 10:58 0:00 exim -bs
mail 24799 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24800 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24803 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24805 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24807 0.0 2.4 1288 776 ? S 10:59 0:00 exim -bs
mail 24808 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:59 0:00 exim <zombie>
mail 24810 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:59 0:00 exim <zombie>
... A total of 230 zombies and 32 real running exim processes.
Is this good? I really doubth that.
This is on a Linux GNU/Debian system.
Best Regards
Daniel Ryde, System Administrator
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