Re: [Exim] Option to limit lifetime of Exim son processes?

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Author: Nico Erfurth
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To: Ralf G. R. Bergs
CC: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [Exim] Option to limit lifetime of Exim son processes?
Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:

>>If you are calling SA via the local_scan() function, there is a
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> This is exactly how I'm calling SA.
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>>local_scan_timeout option, whose default is 5 minutes. However, since
>>you are seeing 30m delays, it can't be that (unless you are using a
>>version of Exim earlier than 4.03, because that's when
>>local_scan_timeout was introduced).
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> No, I'm using 4.10 under Debian/GNU Linux.
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> Still any ideas how to debug the problem? Especially since "kill -USR1 <pid>"
> isn't very helpful either in these cases:
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>     2002-11-19 13:34:36 29832 handling incoming connection from my.mailhub.de
>         [aaa.bbb.c.dd]:51389


AFAIK sa-exim fiddles around with the local_scan_timeout, it needs to do
this for "teergrubing" and stalling.

Most probably, you are receiving high rated spam, and sa-exim is
stalling the sender.

ciao