nscd on solaris can often cause troubles - try just killing it and
removing it from the startup files - may help.
Regards,
aid
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Terry Edhouse wrote:
> I'm running exim v3.13 on Solaris 7 (with fairly recent patchs).
>
> Every so often exim takes several minutes in responding to all new
> connections.
>
> exiwhat shows that an exim process has been forked to handle the
> connection but that process then takes a while before it returns the
> initial response. Once a response has been sent there doesn't appear to
> be any delays in handling the rest of the transaction.
>
> This even occurs if I do 'telnet localhost 25', and sometimes the
> connection times out!
>
> This has also happened on older versions of exim and Solaris.
>
> The problam can last several hours and then everything is back to normal
> (until the next time)
>
> Other systems on the network running exim don't have the same problem
> only the main mail server (typical!)
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> --Terry Edhouse
> Department of Electronics
> University of York
>
>
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