Children dying and not being replaced

[Stephen Swaney]

Andrew,

is check_MailScanner being run from cron at some interval? If it is,
this should not happen.

Steve
Steve at Swaney.com

On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 11:24, Magnusson, Andrew wrote:

> 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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