Bug#314356: exim4-daemon-heavy: "Spool file is locked" in mainlog

[Marc Haber]

user exim4 at packages.debian.org
usertags #314356 gnutls ping-20060131
thanks

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:36:38PM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> >>From time to time, there is an exim4 process that eats 100% of the CPU
> for hours (it doesn't stop until i kill it with a "kill -9" signal). The
> mainlog keep telling me that another process is handling a lockfile.

Does this still happen to you? If so, please check whether you have
enough entropy available (cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail).

Greetings
Marc

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