Timeouts

[Julian Field]

At 23:36 01/10/2001, you wrote:
>Just ran a test of the new timeouts, a 600k file that expands out into a few
>hundred megabytes. The "Commerical scanner timed out!" message appeared in
>the syslog after 5mins, although the sweep process is still thrashing away
>on the same message? (its been going now for 26mins on the one file, and the
>mail queue is at a complete stand still and growing by the second with other
>mail hotfooting it into the queue).

I have just tried this on a Solaris 8 system and the timeouts worked
nicely. It did scan the same thing 3 times (once as part of batch scan,
next as part of individual message scan, third time to attempt
disinfection), but that's as expected.

If you do:
         while :
         do
           ps -fe | grep sweep
         done
and watch the total CPU time of the sweep processes, do they ever exceed
the value set in the timeout setting in the mailscanner.conf file?
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