RE: [exim] Strange behaviour and delays

Jeremy,

Apologies for this, don't seem to have got yr reply in my inbox,
noticed it on the mailing list though.

We don't have a data-acl, basically the box is on a private network,
doesn't have connectivity to the outside world, and is acting as a
smart relay basically. The hosts that send to it are also unconnected
to the outside world, so really no security problems to worry about.
So the box isn't doing anything particularly intensive, only relaying
mail within a private network.


cheers

Steve




Steve Karlsen wrote:
I am currently using exim 4.30 on a sunfire v440.
Currently have smtp_accept_max = 70
I have noticed that when the number of established connections hits
the 70 mark, there is a large delay between the client sending the
terminating dot in the smtp conversations and exim giving the 250 ok,
this delay can typically be from 12 secs to 30secs, which is an awful
long time.
The cpu's =are about 45% idle, load average about 1.0 and absolutely
no disk I/O bottlenecks...

What do you do at data-acl time?


- Jeremy