Many thanks Graeme I'll take a look. It sounds promising. A reboot looks to have cured the problem for the time being.
Thanks David Graeme Fowler wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:24 +0100, Mr David Robertson wrote: >> Update: It is happening with other domains including Yahoo. >> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 and exim-4.69-3 more or less standard install >> from ports with option ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC=yes though this is disabled >> in the config. > > Aha. > > The key here appears to be the "FreeBSD" part - have a look back at > Randy Bush's postings earlier this week about exim_tidydb doing the same > thing. This looks very, very much like something has broken in a recent > update to your OS, which is causing DB file handling to consume silly > amounts of RAM. > > You may need to check recent patches/updates to see what they fixed, and > consider rolling back until the problem is resolved. > > Graeme > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.287 / Virus Database: 270.12.7/2085 - Release Date: 04/28/09 > 18:02:00 > -- ## 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/
