Mailscanner consuming resources

[Phil Kendall]

Only one mailscanner process is running.
I have updated to the lastest version of mailscanner and I will see how
that goes.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: 29 August 2002 10:03
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Mailscanner consuming resources
> 
> 
> At 09:51 29/08/2002, you wrote:
> >The log files say that mailscanner failed to link message 
> bodies between
> >queues.
> 
> Check you haven't got multiple MailScanner processes running.
> And you are using a vaguely recent version of sendmail aren't you?
> There aren't many reasons why the linking can fail :-(
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > > Sent: 29 August 2002 09:41
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Re: Mailscanner consuming resources
> > >
> > >
> > > Check your /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming directory tree for
> > > any core files.
> > > Does it say anything in the logs?
> > > Have you studied the contents of the message to see why it
> > > might cause a
> > > problem?
> > > Modern versions of MailScanner have timeouts on everything invoked
> > > externally to protect against DoS attacks.
> > >
> > > At 09:27 29/08/2002, you wrote:
> > > >Usualy about twice a day I am getting a problem with
> > > mailscanner where
> > > >it will fail to sweep a message correctly and the 
> message will never
> > > >leave the mailscanner/incoming directory. The load averages
> > > the machine
> > > >will reach up to and over 1.0. During this time the top 
> two processes
> > > >are mailscanner and sweep.
> > > >
> > > >To bring the load averages down I have to go into the
> > > >/var/spool/mqueue.in directory and delete both the qf and df
> > > files for
> > > >the message that is 'stuck'.
> > > >
> > > >I am running mailscanner-3.15-3 with Sophos on Solaris 8 
> on an intel
> > > >platform.
> > > >
> > > >Has anyone else come across this, or know what might be 
> causing it?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Phil Kendall
> > > >Technical Systems Administrator
> > > >Total Connectivity Providers
> > >
> > > --
> > > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & 
> Computer Science
> > > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> > >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> > >
> 
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
>