Re: [exim] Mailman/Exim problem with very slow outgoing mail…

Stephanie wrote:
> About two weeks ago, one of my users created a new list (call it XYZ
> list) and directly added about 950 users in one go (she was creating a
> backup list for Yahoogroup) and she neglected to turn off the notices
> to the listowner of new members and she didn't turn off the welcome
> message either so approximately 1,900 messages got sent out
> immediately. At the same time, there were about 10,000 messages in
> the Exim queue for ABC list (the 12 part monthly posting), processing
> at their very slow pace.
[...]
> I've
> watched the individual delivery attempts, when I force delivery of one
> of the ABC list messages, it'll take at least 30 seconds before Exim
> even attempts to lookup the recipient's ISP but once it gets to that
> point, it flies right on thru, speedy as usual.

What's your system activity like during this 30 second pause? If it's
stuck in kernel or doing lots of disk I/O then I'd suspect the
filesystem directory structure..... Can you shut down for long enough
to copy the exim spool to a new tree and then rename it back into place?

- Jeremy