Exim causing excessive load
I have restarted Exim and the load does drop, but comes back. I also did a /scripts/Exim4 to reinstall.
I don't think it is a spammer. I have tail'ed the log and also checked the queue. While I might be wrong, it does look like normal.
Anybody have any idea of what the problem might be or where to start looking?
Here is part of the current top.
20:45:48 up 12:05, 2 users, load average: 20.03, 19.66, 18.28
145 processes: 121 sleeping, 20 running, 3 zombie, 1 stopped
CPU0 states: 96.3% user 3.0% system 0.1% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle
CPU1 states: 97.4% user 2.2% system 0.3% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle
Mem: 1029236k av, 1012580k used, 16656k free, 0k shrd, 199744k buff
742264k actv, 296k in_d, 45756k in_c
Swap: 2096472k av, 125228k used, 1971244k free 464420k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
17493 root 25 0 1856 1444 752 R 17.3 0.1 54:41 1 exim
12382 root 25 0 3716 3716 2616 R 16.7 0.3 5:25 1 exim
29703 root 25 0 1856 1304 752 R 15.9 0.1 16:08 1 exim
2239 root 25 0 1940 1916 840 R 15.9 0.1 10:43 1 exim
5648 root 25 0 2840 2392 1736 R 15.9 0.2 8:48 1 exim
10551 root 25 0 3716 3716 2616 R 15.9 0.3 5:56 1 exim
31317 root 25 0 1860 1860 756 R 11.9 0.1 14:07 0 exim
2149 root 25 0 1856 1856 752 R 11.9 0.1 11:02 0 exim
2240 root 25 0 1940 1940 840 R 11.9 0.1 11:03 0 exim
20444 root 25 0 3720 3720 2616 R 11.9 0.3 2:30 0 exim
13083 root 25 0 3720 3720 2616 R 11.1 0.3 5:03 0 exim
18977 root 25 0 1852 1488 752 R 10.7 0.1 46:30 0 exim
30271 root 25 0 1852 1852 752 R 9.9 0.1 15:54 0 exim
8413 root 25 0 3644 3556 2540 R 9.9 0.3 6:54 0 exim
19080 root 25 0 3716 3716 2616 R 9.9 0.3 2:37 0 exim
15581 root 23 8 21404 16M 1848 S N 0.5 1.6 0:02 1 spamd
28149 root 21 0 3292 3292 2472 R 0.5 0.3 0:00 1 exim
17540 root 16 0 1284 1284 844 R 0.3 0.1 0:05 1 top
1971 root 19 4 5132 148 80 S N 0.1 0.0 7:27 0 httpd
