Is this with exim mail queue normal ?

[docenta]

mailnull 31288 0.0 0.3 7444 3360 ? S 17:49 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
mailnull 32760 0.0 0.3 7432 3336 ? S 17:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
mailnull 3362 0.0 0.3 7432 3336 ? S 17:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
mailnull 3378 0.1 0.3 7432 3336 ? S 17:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
mailnull 3438 0.2 0.3 7432 3336 ? S 17:51 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m



This is running very frequently.
Is not this a 1-hour procedure ?



Thanks.

 

[bmcgrail]

This looks normal. Exim spawns new processes to handle incoming smtp requests.

 

[chirpy]

Actually, those of for processing email on the mail queue. IIRC, each thread processes up to 5 emails each and then dies. So presumably, there are multiple emails in the queue. So, yes, it's perfectly normal.