Children dying and not being replaced

[Magnusson, Andrew]

Twice in the last few days we've had a situation here in which a child dies
of old age and is not replaced. We should be running 5 children at all
times, but it drops to 3 which massively slows down processing. After a
mailscanner restart, of course, everything is fine. Logs show nothing
unusual:

Aug 11 05:54:06 external-smtp MailScanner[29357]: Config: calling custom end
fun
ction SQLLogging
Aug 11 05:54:06 external-smtp MailScanner[29357]: Ending SQL Logging temp
output
 and flushing to database
Aug 11 05:54:24 external-smtp MailScanner[29357]: Database flush completed
Aug 11 05:54:24 external-smtp MailScanner[29357]: MailScanner child dying of
old
 age

Is there anything in particular I should be looking for to determine the
cause?

Andrew Magnusson
Internet Product Analyst
COCC
1-877-678-0444 extension 640



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