I guess that would help, wouldn't it? :)
Here's a few extracted lines (there's too many of them for me to paste the
entire log):
--snip--
2001-05-31 12:27:54 155VIg-00051X-01 failed to open database lock file /var
/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=80 egid=80)
--snip--
--snip--
2001-05-31 12:28:12 155VIh-00051X-01 Spool file is locked (
another process is handling this message)
--snip--
I think this one is irrelevant:
--snip--
2001-05-31 12:27:57 155VIi-00051X-05 SMTP error from remote mailer afte
r initial connection: host mail.x.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: 421 x.x.com: Too
many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again later.
--snip--
Hundreds of those lines...also received this in the panic log, but I don't
think it's related (it happened earlier on in the day and it happens every
once in awhile):
--snip--
2001-05-31 08:12:31 155RJW-00046q-09 TCP service "smtp" not found
--snip--
Thanks :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew D" <awd@???>
To: "Sam Michaels" <swampgas@???>; <exim-users@???>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Heavy traffic
> what do the exim logs say?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Michaels" <swampgas@???>
> To: <exim-users@???>
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:13 AM
> Subject: [Exim] Heavy traffic
>
>
> Have a problem...I have a huge mailing list (500+ people) which gets
emailed
> nightly. At first, I figured the problem was having too many exim
sessions
> open (since each email was a new connection to the server).
>
> But now, I have it stream all the emails on 1 connection....it now gives
> errors about log failure. So far I turned off
> sender_verify/receiver_verify, set smtp_accept_queue_per_connection to
both
> 999 and 0 (no effect), and turned on split_spool_directory.
>
> What the script does is stream all the emails at once (test addresses...I
> have aliases a1 through a500 point to a mailbox on a remote
machine)...here
> is the log (I removed the real domain):
>
> --snip--
> [May 31 2001 12:27:54] Start run.
> [May 31 2001 12:28:29] Unexpected return code: 421 Unexpected log failure,
> pleas
> e try later
>
> [May 31 2001 12:28:29] Error sending mail #234 to 'a235@x'.
> [May 31 2001 12:28:29] Attempting RSET after 10 second sleep...
> [May 31 2001 12:28:39] RSET successful - attempting resend to 'a235@x'.
> [May 31 2001 12:28:39] Unexpected return code: 421 Unexpected log failure,
> pleas
> e try later
>
> [May 31 2001 12:28:39] Error sending mail #234 to 'a235@x' - abo
> rting send.
> [May 31 2001 12:28:39] Attempting RSET after 10 second sleep...
> [May 31 2001 12:28:49] Unexpected return code: 421 Unexpected log failure,
> pleas
> e try later
>
> [May 31 2001 12:28:49] Error sending mail #235 to 'a236@x'.
> [May 31 2001 12:28:49] Attempting RSET after 10 second sleep...
> [May 31 2001 12:28:59] RSET successful - attempting resend to 'a236@x'.
> [May 31 2001 12:28:59] Unexpected return code: 421 Unexpected log failure,
> pleas
> e try later
>
> [May 31 2001 12:28:59] Error sending mail #235 to 'a236@x' - abo
> rting send.
> [May 31 2001 12:28:59] Attempting RSET after 10 second sleep...
> [May 31 2001 12:29:09] Unexpected return code: 421 Unexpected log failure,
> pleas
> e try later
>
> [May 31 2001 12:29:09] Error sending mail #236 to 'a237@x'.
> [May 31 2001 12:29:09] Attempting RSET after 10 second sleep...
> [May 31 2001 12:29:19] RSET successful - attempting resend to 'a237@x'.
> [May 31 2001 12:29:19] Unexpected return code: 421 Unexpected log failure,
> pleas
> e try later
>
> [May 31 2001 12:29:19] Error sending mail #236 to 'a237@x' - abo
> rting send.
> [May 31 2001 12:29:19] Attempting RSET after 10 second sleep...
> [May 31 2001 12:29:29] Unexpected return code: 421 Unexpected log failure,
> pleas
> e try later
>
> [May 31 2001 12:29:29] Error sending mail #237 to 'a238@x'.
> [May 31 2001 12:29:29] Attempting RSET after 10 second sleep...
> [May 31 2001 12:29:39] RSET successful - attempting resend to 'a238@x'.
> [May 31 2001 12:29:39] Unexpected return code: 421 Unexpected log failure,
> pleas
> e try later
>
> [May 31 2001 12:29:39] Error sending mail #237 to 'a238@x' - abo
> rting send.
> [May 31 2001 12:29:39] Attempting RSET after 10 second sleep...
> [May 31 2001 12:29:49] Unexpected return code: 421 Unexpected log failure,
> pleas
> e try later
>
> [May 31 2001 12:29:49] RSET failure...reinitializing...
> --snip--
>
> At this point it drops the current connection and reconnects...same
results.
>
> Is there some massive load feature that I didn't read in the manual?
Would
> it work better or be more efficient if I had it process the mailing list
on
> the smtp server and use the stdin for exim?
>
> Thanks...
>
> -Sam
>
>
>
>
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>
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