Exim - high load on one account but not others

s_rage

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Greetings,

Have been having trouble with exim causing high server loads, but noticed it is specific to one account. I wrote a script, "email_test", that sends 20 emails by repeating the following command 20 times:
"echo test | /usr/sbin/exim [email protected]"

If I log into the server as accta and run the script, all 20 emails go out in less than one second, and the server load does not change.

But, if I log into the server as acctb and run the script, it takes 12-13 seconds for the emails to go out, and the server load gets higher than 15.

This is always the case for both of these accounts, no exceptions.

Anyone have a clue what's going on?
 

chirpy

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Jun 15, 2002
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Go on, have a guess
No idea why there would be a difference. To control the server load you might want to use the:

queue_only_load = 4

line in the first textarea of the exim configuration editor in WHM to force email to the exim queue if the load average is getting too high.