exim using 98.8% of my cpu

[sacred]

What can I do to prevent this?

Top Process %CPU 98.9 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq -q exim
Top Process %CPU 98.8 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq -q exim

[s_2_s]

same here !!!1

[dezignguy]

that's not exim itself... that's the rpm binary checking the version info of the exim rpm.

It should show something like this:

exim-4.43-40_cpanel_smtpctl_av_rewrite_mm2_mmmtrap_exiscan_md5pass

I'd guess that your rpm database may be corrupt... can you use up2date/yum, or does it freeze too?

You should probably rebuild your rpm database... search to find out more info on doing that.