On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:23:42AM +0100, Rob Butterworth wrote:
> We're running exim 3.12-10 on Debian 2.2 with a 2.4 Linux kernel and xfs
> file systems, and on one of our servers we're seeing some serious problems
> with exim.
What (if any) are the differences between the systems that exhibit this problem
with huge retry databases, and the ones that don't?
> The more serious problem is that the exim processes sometimes grow so large
> that the system runs out of both physical and virtual memory. This may
> correspond with the size of the database files in /var/spool/exim/db
> getting *huge* - at one point the retry database was 5GB in size (which
> wouldn't have been possible on an ext2fs partition....)
Our retry database is rarely larger than about 80MB on our relay servers. I
guess something must be quite seriously badly wrong for it to grow to 5GB.
Ollie
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