Exim too many processes

[chiptecmm.com]

hi there

I'm being affected by un unlnow problem at ourt server, our exim service has too many processes, sometimes this causes the server crash.

Exim exim (pid 3511 624 3252 6310 8809 10712 11648 11649 11744 11747 11835 11836 14309 14310 14331 14333 14351 14356 14384 14412 14414 14475 14479 14513 14515 14524 14571 14583 14604 14700 14702 14704 14706 14707 14711 14713 14714 14720 14722 14725 14726 14727 14732 14734 14738 14740 )

Did anyone have thin before?

How was solved?

 

[fusionictnl]

Do you receive email ? Does the logs of exim show anything out of the ordinary ? /var/log/exim/

Did you configure exim for spamassassin and/or virus software (clamav) ? Check if these services are running

 

[nobaloney]

Most of the time if there are too many exim processes then your exim queue is overflowing with undeliverable messages.

How many messages in your outgoing exim queue?

Jeff

 

[chiptecmm.com]

My webserver company told me that have to do with and installed worm, it seems that someone have used the php vulnerability, of the previous version.

 

[nobaloney]

Then simply clear the outgoing exim queue.

You may or may not decide to clear all the outgoing messages, because if you do, then a lot of legitimate email may be dropped.

But if there's a lot, and you don't want to look at each message, that could be the only way.

Information on clearing the exim queue can be found on the exim site, or in the exim book available from UITCambridge. Do NOT consider the exim book published by O'Reilly sold at Amazon; it's for an earlier version.

Jeff