I have a server with cpanel, exim, apf, and bfd. It is running with a high load and it seems bfd is hanging. ive uninstaled and reinstalled bfd but i cant find any reason why its behaving like this.

the load fluctuates in a matter of minutes

it jumps up to over 3.00+ with bfd running. when i kill bfd it drops down to 0.30 or so

ive seen loads as high as 5 or 6

in top these are the first few entries:

18667 root 25 0 2368 1100 808 S 3.0 0.1 0:09.00 bfd
10748 mailnull 15 0 9872 2872 1852 S 1.7 0.2 0:00.05 exim
11349 mailnull 15 0 10016 3512 2400 S 1.7 0.2 0:00.05 exim
11213 mailnull 15 0 9872 2872 1852 S 1.3 0.2 0:00.04 exim
11432 mailnull 15 0 9872 2872 1852 S 1.3 0.2 0:00.04 exim
10810 mailnull 15 0 9872 2872 1852 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.04 exim


and

ps returns

root 18628 0.0 0.0 2396 944 ? Ss 20:30 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/bfd -q
root 18667 3.2 0.0 2368 1100 ? R 20:30 0:06 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/bfd -s
root 16031 0.0 0.0 4188 664 pts/0 S+ 20:33 0:00 grep bfd
root 16028 0.0 0.0 2368 300 ? R 20:33 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/bfd -s

and lots of


mailnull 22100 0.3 0.1 9872 2872 ? S 20:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
mailnull 22105 0.4 0.2 10016 3512 ? S 20:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
mailnull 22115 0.5 0.1 9872 2872 ? S 20:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
mailnull 22117 0.6 0.1 9872 2872 ? S 20:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
mailnull 22118 2.0 0.1 9872 2872 ? S 20:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m


any help on this matter would be appreciated. thank you in advance.

Check what is happing by reading your mail logs
/var/log/exim_mainlog