Graeme Fowler wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 21:40 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: >> damn! why did i not think of that? :) > > Weeeellll... no, that's just to tempting ;-) > >> 4g machines, swapinfo, vmstat, etc show no hints. but it's always in >> exim_tidydb, $dieties know why. > > I smell a corrupted DBM file. Can you run exim_tidydb by hand (it won't > hurt) at an appropriate moment and wait to see which db file it opens > when the memory usage goes bananas? > > Alternatively, delete or move them aside one by one (again it's unlikely > to hurt much) and see which one "unsticks" the problem. Then, if you > move them, you can have a look-see at the file to see why it's broken. > > Graeme > >
'nuther possibility - a couple of years ago I hit a similar, but not identical problem. Cause was having updated the DBM code on the fly (w/o stopping Exim or anything else...). Fix was to delete the entire Exim hints DB, restart Exim, and let it build a new one with the new toolset(s). AFAIK, the formats were not changed - but writes to the DB were probably garbled in the midst of the change. Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
