Bug#360696: exim4-daemon-heavy: Failed to get write lock for retry.lockfile / exim process hangs with 100% CPU

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-04-04 Michel Meyers <steltek at tcnnet.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
> Version: 4.60-4
> Severity: normal

> Hello,

> I'm having a similar problem as the one mentioned in Bug 314356 :

> I communicate a lot with people defined on an SMTP server that uses
> greylisting and whenever that server rejects one of my outgoing e-mails
> (meaning that exim has to retry on my side), the respective exim process
> gets stuck with 100% CPU usage and the only way to get rid of it is to
> kill it with signal 9. While the stuck process is there, the mainlog
> keeps mentioning messages like these:
[...]

What does exiwhat say about the stuck process?
            cu andreas
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