On 2010-12-27 at 09:43 +0300, Артем Каялайнен wrote:
> I can't understand how to deal with the dying exim. It dies with this in
> panic log:
> 2010-12-25 23:17:44 [22683] failed to write to main log: length=115
> result=-1 errno=4 (Interrupted system call)
>
> I suppose that this is happening at the moment a high load on the file
> system (backup of mailboxes). At least this was never on weekdays, only on
> weekends, after or during the backup process. Other daemons running without
> problems.
>
> OS is FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, file system is UFS2 + gjournal (1Tb of free
> space) on raid5 with adaptec 3805 controller. Exim version 4.72
>
> Any suggestions?
This is a bug in Exim. Looking at the code, I'm rather shocked that it
has never bitten us before now.
I've filed a tracking bug for this:
http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1053
Feel free to add yourself to the CC list of the bug.
Regards,
-Phil
