Bug#377857: occasional SIGSEGV in exim4 under heavy load

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:19:38PM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> Under heavy SMTP load, we occasionally observe the exim4
> daemon crashing (with the result that no further
> connections can be accepted, obviously). We can reproduce
> this here with the `postal' SMTP benchmark (package
> postal) and the following command-line:
> 
>     postal -p 10 -c 10 -m 1 localhost users -

I cannot reproduce this, neither on sarge nor on sid. Changes to your
setup: My tests were running in a chroot, and I aliased the account to
":blackhole:" which should be the same as /dev/null but does not
require pipes to be allowed in the router.

Greetings
Marc

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