[Pkg-exim4-users] multiple copies of exim4 running
Gerard Hooton
ghooton at bbns.ie
Tue Jan 13 09:00:53 UTC 2009
when I run exiwhat I get :-
scoil:~# exiwhat
1877 daemon: -q30m, listening for SMTP on [87.33.113.4]:25
When I dp ps I get :-
scoil:~# ps -elf |grep exim
5 S 102 1877 1 0 80 0 - 3493 - Jan12 ? 00:00:01
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 4691 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 5301 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 5308 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 5310 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 5311 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 5804 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 6305 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 6310 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 6312 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 6319 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 6365 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 6382 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 6815 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 7095 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 7099 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 7100 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 7101 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - Jan12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 7913 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - 00:47 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 7917 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - 00:48 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 7918 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - 00:48 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 7919 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - 00:48 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 9351 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - 04:47 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 9354 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - 04:48 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 9517 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - 05:12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 9520 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - 05:12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 9521 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - 05:12 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
1 S 102 9527 1877 0 80 0 - 3495 - 05:14 ? 00:00:00
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
0 S root 27157 27079 0 80 0 - 546 - 08:58 pts/0 00:00:00
grep exim
"Johann Spies" <jspies at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:35:08AM +0000, Gerard Hooton wrote:
>> Thanks Johann for you reply,
>> My understanding is that for each connection a new exim4 process is
started.
>> When the connection is dropped (completed the delivery of a message to
the
>> server for example) then
>> that process should die ?? It would appear that on my system the process
>> remains after the connection drops.
>> Is my understanding on this correct?
>
> You will see separate processes of exim like this:
>
> 2287 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q1m
> 2289 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q1m
> 2291 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q1m
> 2296 ttyp2 S+ 0:00 | \_ grep exim
> 29446 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1LMLKK-0007es-NQ
> 30092 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1LMLKK-0007es-NQ
> 2147 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1LMLP9-0000YV-Ma
> 2150 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1LMLP9-0000YV-Ma
>
> The ones with the -bd -q1m are the daemons. The others are instances
> handling specific messages. You can see what exim is doing running
> 'exiwhat'.
>
>>
>> Also, where do specify how many connections I want to allow?
>> I have split config files on my debian server.
>
> Search Exim's spec.txt.gz for smtp_accept_max and you will find your
> answers.
>
> Regards
> Johann
>
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Gerard Hooton
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