Re: [Exim] exim 3.22 problem on solaris 2.6

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Author: Alan Thew
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To: Gary Palmer
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim 3.22 problem on solaris 2.6
Sorry to `join the party late' but we're running 3.22 and sol 2.6 and have
just had our spool area filled with

81920 Jun 27 01:14 15F2y0-0007Co-00-D

and on and on, no log entries. Our other 3.22/sol26 machine is fine or alt
least spool loading is what I would expect.

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Alan Thew
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Gary Palmer wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> We recently tried upgrading to Exim 3.22 (compiled with 32 bit version
> of gcc 2.95.2) on our inbound mx servers and while it appeared to
> work, we noticed that a number of odd files were gathering in the
> spool directory. They're all -D files, and they're all roughly the
> same size. e.g.
>
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim      811008 May 29 07:23 ./B/154hbB-0004oH-00-D
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim      778240 May 29 08:03 ./B/154iEB-0006eL-00-D
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim      778240 May 29 08:28 ./B/154icB-00055e-00-D
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim      778240 May 29 09:33 ./B/154jdB-0005O2-00-D
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim      778240 May 29 10:06 ./B/154k9B-0001yw-00-D
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim      778240 May 29 11:12 ./B/154lAB-0004iQ-00-D
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim      778240 May 29 11:45 ./B/154lgB-0002PZ-00-D
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim      778240 May 29 12:50 ./B/154mhB-0003TT-00-D
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim      778240 May 29 12:58 ./B/154mpB-0006TZ-00-D
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim      778240 May 29 13:04 ./B/154mvB-0000rJ-00-D
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim      778240 May 29 13:23 ./B/154nDB-0007Cw-00-D
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim      778240 May 29 13:56 ./B/154njB-0002jy-00-D

>
> The odd thing comes when you look in one of the files. At the start,
> there is part of a header. The message-id I find mentioned for the
> message on the machine where the file is found is not in the logs
> anywhere (main or reject). No panic logs were created. Then a small
> snipped of the configuration file, then what appears to be a dump of
> malloc'd memory used by exim itself.
>
> Anyone seen anything like this before? It doesn't happen often
> enough, and these machines are under a load which makes trussing the
> exim listener & its children an extreme way of debugging the problem,
> and I'm not sure of any other way of determining what is going on.
> I've since backed back down to 3.16 (which didn't have this problem),
> but I'd like to upgrade.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
>
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