> 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?
work0.psg.com:/var/spool/exim/db# exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry Tidying Exim hints database /var/spool/exim/db/retry failed to malloc 8200 bytes of memory: called from line 167 of store.c work0.psg.com:/var/spool/exim/db# ls -l total 128 -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 65536 Apr 27 21:46 retry -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 0 May 25 2003 retry.lockfile -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 65536 Apr 27 21:55 wait-remote_smtp -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 0 May 25 2003 wait-remote_smtp.lockfile work0.psg.com:/var/spool/exim/db# rm * wait a while work0.psg.com:/var/spool/exim/db# ls -l total 35 -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 16384 Apr 27 22:20 retry -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 0 Apr 27 22:10 retry.lockfile -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 16384 Apr 27 22:25 wait-remote_smtp -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 0 Apr 27 22:10 wait-remote_smtp.lockfile work0.psg.com:/var/spool/exim/db# exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry Tidying Exim hints database /var/spool/exim/db/retry top shows PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 38730 root 1 62 0 7772M 3432M pfault 1 0:25 16.26% exim_tidydb system locks up and requires remote power bar this is happening on more than one system randy -- ## 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/
