Author: Jeroen van Aart Date: To: exim-users@exim.org Subject: Re: [exim] High CPU
Timothy Arnold wrote: > I'm hoping that someone might be able to solve an issue that I am seeing. It appears that Exim is getting "stuck" on some messages, and using a large amount of CPU in the process > Any ideas? The only logging that I have is the original message entering the system.
Could it be that it's not so much stuck but busy receiving the message
data, perhaps it has a large attachment, and it's scanning the message
while it's being downloaded.
At least I noticed similar behaviour with a spam filter which does
scanning of the content. That doesn't explain the part where it's being
sent ok after a restart, but perhaps that's not really the case?