Re: [exim] Exim processes hanging in 'futex' system call

On 2010-07-07 at 09:34 +0200, Matthias Foerste wrote:
> recently we had a problem with an exim installation at one of our
> customers. Remote connections would just time out, while local
> connections still worked. We didn't have much time to investigate,
> restarted the service and could connect again.
>
> Afterwards we noticed some old exim processes (children of init) just
> sitting there for days.

If it's a child of init, then it got reparented, perhaps when you killed
the old Exim?

What does "exiwhat" say? This is a tool supplied with Exim which should
ask all the Exim processes what they're currently doing.

-Phil