[Exim] exim-3.36 Increases Load on cpu.

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Author: System
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To: Exim
Subject: [Exim] exim-3.36 Increases Load on cpu.
Hello ,

I am on Redhat 7.2 and exim-3.36.

I have a weired problem on my machine. I am running exim on my server and
not sendmail.

#uptime
6:33am up 14 days, 3:16, 1 user, load average: 23.53, 23.90, 22.60

# ps aux
root     19025  3.7  0.5  4856 2692 ?        D    06:34   0:00 [sendmail]
root     19033  4.1  0.5  4856 2692 ?        D    06:34   0:00 [sendmail]
root     19041  5.0  0.5  4856 2692 ?        S    06:34   0:00 [sendmail]
root     19044  5.4  0.5  4860 2696 ?        D    06:34   0:00 [sendmail]
root     19050  1.5  0.2  4360 1440 ?        R    06:34   0:00
/usr/sbin/exim -t -oem -oi -f <> -E19WD2N-0004x
root     19051  6.5  0.5  4860 2696 ?        D    06:34   0:00 [sendmail]
root     19054  4.5  0.4  4604 2376 ?        D    06:34   0:00
/usr/sbin/exim -t -oem -oi -f <> -E19WD2J-0004w
root     19056 12.5  0.5  4860 2696 ?        S    06:34   0:00 [sendmail]
root     19057  3.0  0.2  4360 1444 ?        D    06:34   0:00 [sendmail]
root     19059  4.0  0.4  4540 2328 ?        D    06:34   0:00
/usr/sbin/exim -t -oem -oi -f <> -E19WD1q-0004t
root     19062  4.0  0.4  4540 2328 ?        D    06:34   0:00
/usr/sbin/exim -t -oem -oi -f <> -E19WD1u-0004t
root     19063  3.0  0.3  4388 1528 ?        S    06:34   0:00
/usr/sbin/exim -t -oem -oi -f <> -E19WD1u-0004u


# tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog
2003-06-28 06:35:20 19WD3S-000538-00 ** nobody@???: retry
timeout exceeded
2003-06-28 06:35:20 19WD3T-00053I-00 Completed
2003-06-28 06:35:20 19WD3S-000538-00 nobody@???: error ignored
2003-06-28 06:35:20 19WD3U-00053S-00 ** hamay06@???: unrouteable
mail domain "yahoo.co.au"
2003-06-28 06:35:20 19WD3V-00053b-00 <= nobody@??? U=nobody
P=local S=586
2003-06-28 06:35:21 19WD3V-00053X-00 ** hamay06@???: unrouteable
mail domain "yahoo.co.au"
2003-06-28 06:35:21 19WD3S-000538-00 Completed

I have symlinked /usr/sbin/sendmail--> exim*

I am trying to kill the process and even stopped exim but still the log
continues.

Any comments on why is this happening ?

Regards,
Tina.