Re: [Exim] Increase in Exim daemons whenever there is new SM…

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Autor: Philip Hazel
Datum:  
To: Harisha K.R.
CC: exim-users@exim.org
Betreff: Re: [Exim] Increase in Exim daemons whenever there is new SMTP attempt
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Harisha K.R. wrote:

> Afte sometime it would be like this:
>
> # ps -ef|grep exim
> mailnull  2492     1  0 14:08 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m
> mailnull  2496  2492  0 14:08 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m
> mailnull  2535  2492  1 14:15 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m
> root      2538  2103  1 14:15 pts/2    00:00:00 grep exim


Those are not necessarily all daemon processes. Use the "exiwhat"
utility to find out what they are doing. I would expect that 2492 is the
daemon and 2496 and 2535 are forked subprocesses of the daemon that are
receiving incoming messages. (Notice that the daemon is their parent.)

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