Re: [Exim] HELP! Exim processes are running away with 100+M…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Trevor Sky Garside
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] HELP! Exim processes are running away with 100+MB of RAM, crashing my mail servers!
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Trevor Sky Garside wrote:

> That's where I am right now. We've resorted to throwing more and more
> hardware at the system to keep it alive, but I'd really like to solve the
> issue of the Exim processes gobbling up the RAM.


See concurrent thread "Possible DOS for Exim".

Do you have a system filter that refers to $message_headers?

Have you received a message with an exceedingly large number of headers?

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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