On 24 Sep 2000, Jonathan Hseu wrote:
> "Message is frozen" now seemingly fills up my /var/log/exim/mainlog
> (which is now 80 megabytes, if you think that is normal). Anyways, I
> get around 5 of them a second, and exim takes up 100 % of the CPU at the
> time. This happens only when this script is run:
> # /etc/cron.d/exim: crontab fragment for exim
Your queue must be full of frozen messages. Why? Check the main logs to
see what has happened.
> Is there a way to allow this cron job to run without pushing my load
> averages up to 50?
Get rid of the frozen messages on your queue.
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