Hi, I think there is a problem with the Solaris version of Exim.
The symptoms I've seen are negative RT log entries and negative $message_age values. But there maybe more. With a SIGHUP the negative values disappear (temporarily). I've read the sources and manual pages and maybe this is the reason: Exim calculates an offset of the CLOCK_MONOTONIC timer once at the start of the program and this offset is used to calculate the real receive time of an incoming message. This is fine if CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC timers are both updated by adjtime or other calls (e.g. via ntpd/ntpdate). This is the case with Linux and AFAIK this also applies to CLOCK_BOOTTIME. On Solaris CLOCK_MONOTONIC isn't updated by clock drifts. Thus, depending on the clock drifts of a particuliar system, the offset may become wrong in a long running process. There seems to be no equivalent to the Linux variant of CLOCK_MONOTONIC on Solaris. Only for the opposite direction (see CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW on Linux). Martin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Preen, Universität Freiburg, Institut für Informatik Georges-Koehler-Allee 52, Raum EG-006, 79110 Freiburg, Germany phone: ++49 761 203-8250 pr...@informatik.uni-freiburg.de fax: ++49 761 203-8242 swt.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/preen
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