Today I find in the exim-logs the following.
Lots of exim-processes hanging around and response-time is bad.
Can anyone help me with this one??
2001-08-17 14:21:23 15Xixg-0004Vi-00 Failed to get write lock for
/var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: timed out
2001-08-17 14:21:23 15Xixg-0004Vi-00 Failed to open wait-remote_smtp
database: Connection timed out
2001-08-17 14:21:24 15Xix7-0004UP-00 Failed to get write lock for
/var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: timed out
2001-08-17 14:21:24 15Xix7-0004UP-00 Failed to open wait-remote_smtp
database: Connection timed out
And by the way.
Why ist the load average this, high but CPU states 85%.
d.
2:29pm up 66 days, 3:23, 4 users, load average: 7.12, 6.88, 5.25
211 processes: 208 sleeping, 1 running, 2 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 6.1% user, 8.9% system, 0.0% nice, 84.9% idle
Mem: 261664K av, 258452K used, 3212K free, 0K shrd, 110172K buff
Swap: 128516K av, 492K used, 128024K free 81740K cached
Sort by age
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
19310 root 19 0 1352 1352 704 R 0 5.6 0.5 0:02 top
19553 mail 7 0 1320 1320 1164 D 0 0.4 0.5 0:00 exim
19436 mail 0 0 1360 1360 1172 D 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 exim
19505 mail 7 0 1308 1308 1040 D 0 0.0 0.4 0:00 exim
19518 mail 4 0 1324 1324 1164 D 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 exim
19540 mail 5 0 1320 1320 1164 D 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 exim
19552 mail 6 0 1320 1320 1164 D 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 exim