[Exim] Needing help

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Author: Dirk Slaghekke
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Needing help
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