Exim started giving a new error tonight "transport filter process failed"

[rfrench10]

I started getting a new exim error today. The mail queue fills with emails that result in this error when trying to manually deliver them. These errors follow exim failures and cpu loads of 433.12 and then I reboot to regain control of the system. I will also open a ticket if allowed.

Message 1CrwEB-0001OM-P0 is not frozen
delivering 1CrwEB-0001OM-P0
LOG: MAIN
<user@domain.com>: virtual_sa_userdelivery transport output: An error was detected while processing a file of BSMTP input.
LOG: MAIN PANIC
== user@domain.com R=virtual_sa_user T=virtual_sa_userdelivery defer (-24): Transport filter process failed (127): unable to execute command

[easyhoster1]

looks like spamassasin is broke. try removing it fo this account and see if the mail goes through

[rfrench10]

Thanks, that was the root cause of that particular problem. However This afternoon I started getting a whole new issue. It takes a hard reset (reboot) in order to gain control of the server again and that only lasts from 15-60 minutes before it all starts over again.

Look at these stats...

exim (exim-4.44-0_cpanel_smtpctl_av_rewrite_mm2_mmmtrap_exiscan_md5pass) failed
Server Load 340.32 (1 cpu)
Memory Used 52.8 %
Swap 1 %

Here is the TOP printout

User Domain %CPU %MEM Mysql Processes

root 20.69 12.10 2.0
Top Process %CPU 74.3 /usr/sbin/runq -v
Top Process %CPU 73.5 /usr/sbin/exim -Mc 1CrzAk-0001fv-Cw
Top Process %CPU 66.8 /usr/sbin/exim -Mc 1Cs4FC-0001MR-3j

mailnull 6.07 2.16 0.0
Top Process %CPU 15.0 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
Top Process %CPU 14.0 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
Top Process %CPU 13.0 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m

user1 userdomain1.com 1.58 9.46 0.1
Top Process %CPU 33.3 [neomail.pl ]
Top Process %CPU 12.0 /usr/bin/perl aff.cgi
Top Process %CPU 11.0 /usr/bin/perl aff.cgi

user2 userdomain2.com 0.66 0.38 0.1
Top Process %CPU 11.0 /usr/bin/php -f/home/user2/public_html/studio/users/send_emails.php
Top Process %CPU 10.0 /usr/bin/php -f/home/user2/public_html/studio/users/send_emails.php
Top Process %CPU 8.0 /usr/bin/php -f/home/user2/public_html/studio/users/send_emails.php


Any additional ideas on this cause?

[phpman]

That error is because spamd is not installed.

The installation is hanging due to a CPAN error.

Follow the steps

1 - perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTML::Tagset;'
2 - /scripts/installspam
3 - /scripts/restartsrv_spamd
4 - /etc/init.d/exim restart
5 - /etc/init.d/cpanel restart

Done

Regard´s

Flávio