Re: [exim] Exim child processes segfault

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Author: Marcin Krol
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim child processes segfault
Friday 08 February 2008 12:53:15 Tony Finch napisał(a):
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Marcin Krol wrote:
> >
> > I get very disturbing effect on one of my hosts (Debian Etch), from time
> > to time exim creates lots and lots of (child?) processes, they all bog down
> > the CPUs and they can't finish working on some task.


> Can you try running exim -d -qf to see if one of the messages on your
> queue is causing the crash?


It seems like Exim can't finalize handling the message:

da6 /var/spool/exim/input % ps auxwwww | grep 29154
mail     29154 26.1  0.0  10560  3680 ?        Rs   13:07   1:35 /usr/sbin/exim -Mc 1JNS14-0007aD-L2


da6 /var/spool/exim/input % date
Fri Feb 8 13:15:33 CET 2008

That process is still bogging down CPU eight minutes after this message has already been
delivered to the remote host:

2008-02-08 13:07:48 1JNS14-0007aD-L2 Completed


exim -d -qf doesn't help. Simply speaking, It shouldn't, really, as this message is not in
queue anymore.

This problem is persistent on both v4.68 and v4.69 (on the same host, I upgraded Exim quickly).

Regards,
Marcin Krol