Quoth Trevor Sky Garside on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:32:49 -0800
> > But not running exim in debug mode and finding out what causes the
> > prblem?...
>
> I can't seem to duplicate it -- any processes I spawn don't seem to be
> affected. (See below).
Hum... try spawning a queu runner and monitoring this one. Generally
those problems occure on queue runners.
Oh, see if there are any unusually large files in your spool... like
orphant -H or -D files...
> I have been trying to find any similarities by using exiwhat to see what
> processes are hogging the RAM. They vary. Some are accepting inbound
> connections, some are delivering email. None of the email deliveries or
> inbounds that I was able to trace down were bigger than 15Kb, and nothing
> abnormal looking in the headers.
What about split_spool_dir option?
> To update my situation: I have managed to stabalize the mail system
> enough that it doesn't crash. I've got just the right combination of
> load-limiting options that seem to keep it going.
Not ideal really... Let us know what happended.
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