Too Many Exim Processes???

nhouse

nhouse

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Hi Everyone, I have recently noticed my server beginning to slow down some. The server load seems to have jumped (sparatically) and at times there seems to be a lot of processes running, well at least much more than I noticed before. I have included a screen shot here of the service monitor in DA to give you an idea of what I mean. The MySQL processess are pretty high too.

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When you folks look at this, does it seem high to you? I am definately not a guru on this type of stuff. I know that DA also monitrs the processes to start them if they are failed or stopped... but what about if a service is stuck, so to speak?
 
Exim seems reasonable.

MySQL is not unreasonable depending on how busy your mysql-based sites are.

Jeff
 
Thanks Jeff. I appreciate your input. Can you give me a little advice on the following too... I know that when Apache restarts it "refreshes" things and the MySQL (for instance) processes are reset too. I guess that's the way to describe it. This being the case, is it wise to have Apaches set to restart in some sort of schedule?
 
Apache restarts daily, if I recall correctly. You can also use a cronjob to restart it for other reasons, such as if server load gets too high (we do that) but otherwise I don't think there's any reason to restart it just so you can say you did :) .

Jeff
 
Well... I feel that I have another issue that I haven't found yet that is driving up my server load and I am just trying to come up with a way to combat it until I track it down. Today the server load reported in "top" was very high and makes no sence. At one point it reached over 300.00 and when this happened it seemed that exim had a lot of processes going and spamd also stalled. I wonder if I have a client with an infected machine that is blasting email through the system.

:(
 
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nhouse said:
Well... I feel that I have another issue that I haven't found yet that is driving up my server load and I am just trying to come up with a way to combat it until I track it down. Today the server load reported in "top" was very high and makes no sence. At one point it reached over 300.00 and when this happened it seemed that exim had a lot of processes going and spamd also stalled. I wonder if I have a client with an infected machine that is blating email through the system.

:(
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Well, your box only has 1gb of ram in it. That means there isnt much room to optimize mysql and the box is probably swapping with that little ram. You should really look into getting more ram, optimizing mysql and moving all mysql db to another drive if you have one.

DA really is a ram hog in my opinion. Something should be done about this. We have no less than 4gb of ram on our boxes. Every box runs low after awhile. After about a week we barely have 200meg available. I mentioned this before and ill mention it again. DA IS A HUGE MEMORY HOG. Its not like we are running anything special. Oh, and the moment those backups kick in, you can kiss your ram goodbye.
 
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4 GB... woa! I actually think there is something else going on... but more RAM is a good idea.

Thanks for your input.
 
nhouse said:
4 GB... woa! I actually think there is something else going on... but more RAM is a good idea.

Thanks for your input.
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Yep, here is my server information. Notice, its been only 3 days since we last reboot and look at the avialble ram.

Processor Name AMD Opteron(tm) Dual Processor 852 (2591.16-MHz 686-class CPU)
Total Memory 4023.4 MB
Free Memory 174.102 MB
System Uptime 3 Days, 10 Hours and 23 Minutes
Apache 1.3.37 Running
DirectAdmin Running
Exim 4.62 Running
MySQL 5.0.22 Running
Named 9.3.2 Running
ProFTPd 1.3.0 Running
sshd Running
vm-Pop3d 1.1.7f-DA-2 Running


Doesnt seem right to me. 4gb of ram and only 174mb left after 3days up? :confused:
 
exim / spam assassin / too much children processes

I found this message in a forum regarding the handle of children processes
to avoid full memory problems. I wonder if it could be adapted to Direct
Admin.
What do you think?
 
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