Re: [exim] Exim porc. grows very large

Many thanks Graeme I'll take a look. It sounds promising.
A reboot looks to have cured the problem for the time being.

Thanks

David

Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:24 +0100, Mr David Robertson wrote:
>> Update: It is happening with other domains including Yahoo.
>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 and exim-4.69-3 more or less standard install
>> from ports with option ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC=yes though this is disabled
>> in the config.
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> Aha.
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> The key here appears to be the "FreeBSD" part - have a look back at
> Randy Bush's postings earlier this week about exim_tidydb doing the same
> thing. This looks very, very much like something has broken in a recent
> update to your OS, which is causing DB file handling to consume silly
> amounts of RAM.
>
> You may need to check recent patches/updates to see what they fixed, and
> consider rolling back until the problem is resolved.
>
> Graeme
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