On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Gerard Hooton <ghooton@???> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I am seeing multiple copies of it running :-
>
>
> scoil:~> ps -elf | grep exim
> 5 S 102 10020 1 0 80 0 - 3491 - 09:30 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 10080 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 09:34 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 10096 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 09:35 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 10098 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 09:35 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 10101 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 09:35 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11174 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:35 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11178 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:36 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11179 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:37 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11181 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:37 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11225 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:44 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11226 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:44 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11227 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:44 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11228 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:44 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11229 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:44 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11234 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:44 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11236 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:45 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11242 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:45 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
> 1 S 102 11245 10020 0 80 0 - 3493 - 11:46 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
Last time I experienced such, my I/O system was buggered, the
controller wasn't functioning properly. The system logfile had entries
referring to the filesystem malfunctioning. This whole thing was also
coupled with high load average figures.