Hello,
it seems to me that proportional to traffic there are additional
processes 'exim4 -bd -q30m' are created and keep existing. At the end
the machine doesn't accept emails anymore.
ps -ef | grep exim4 looks like:
root 29025 1 0 2006 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q
root 1310 29025 0 2006 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q
root 5789 1 0 2006 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q
root 13382 5789 0 2006 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q
root 10123 1 0 2006 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc
1GwGgl-0002ck-TS
root 30379 1 0 2006 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc
1GwLxN-0007tu-0N
root 6687 1 0 2006 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q
root 6726 6687 0 2006 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q
Debian- 16924 1 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:04 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
root 26221 1 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc
1H4HfZ-0006or-Sa
Debian- 26274 16924 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
Debian- 26276 16924 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
Debian- 26281 16924 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
Debian- 26312 16924 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
Debian- 26346 16924 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
Debian- 26347 16924 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
Debian- 26349 16924 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
Debian- 26354 16924 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
Debian- 26446 16924 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
Debian- 26449 16924 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
Debian- 26451 16924 0 Jan09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
root 3633 16924 0 09:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q
root 4571 3633 0 09:12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q
Debian- 4573 4571 0 09:12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q
root 4660 1 0 09:13 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc
1H4YZ8-0001D8-8m
Debian- 4800 16924 0 09:13 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
root 4808 3143 0 09:13 pts/2 00:00:00 grep exim4
My exim4 works together with courier imap, sqwebmail and postgresql.
Regards
Rainer Sigl
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