Ok. I have been trying to resolve this issue for a couple of months now. A lot of you have solved every other issue that I have run into since purchasing my first server with RS and for all those fixes, I thank you. NOW, I'm on my second server and have a problem that I cannot find a fix for and need to kick around some ideas.

I have a 1.3 Celeron with RH 7.3 with a recently updated kernel, current stable version of CPanel and everything associated.

What I would like to know is how is httpd tied in with Exim? If, in fact it is.

The problem I am having is I have a server that serves a high load of email (several safe lists being run with a PHP script) daily. Even without the safe list script running, I still get a pile of exim processes. During the sending and receiving of mail this server accumulates a high amount of Exim processes. If I restart httpd the defunct exim processes (zombies) die. If I do nothing at all, this server will accumulate a couple of thousand exim process within an hours time and will basically bring the server to a very slow crawl at some point. I know I can setup a cron to reset the httpd server every half hour (which I have done) BUT, for some unknown reason this causes the mail que to hold old messages that never get delivered. (I know, that seems very strange to me too) 2 days ago I found almost 20gigs of old email just sitting in the que. Yeah, almost 20 gigs. There has been several 1000 emails that have gone out successfully. I just can't find a pattern to this maddness!

There are no mail-forms on this server. There is no spammer using my resources as I have monitored this server for weeks. I've tweaked, poked, probed, updated, removed and read every piece of info I could find about this issue and still have no resolve. I've done everything but give this thing an enima.

This server has been like this since I first leased it. I attempted to repair it with a fresh update of CPanel. I even submitted a TT to RS to run a MEM Check on it. They say its ok. I'm at witts end and could use some help before I tie a rope around it and send it to HeadSurfer to be used as an anchor for his boat. If he has one.

Again, If anyone knows how httpd is tied in with Exim (If in fact it is) I sure would like to know. Or any other ideas??

This was started in another thread but I decided it needs its own. Who knows, maybe I'm not the only one with the problem.

Thanks
Michael