Children dying and not being replaced

[Magnusson, Andrew]

We're on 4.20-3 now.

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



-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 12:48 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Children dying and not being replaced


I fixed this in a recent release. Not 100% sure when, but the ChangeLog for
4.13 mentions improvements to child process handling.

At 16:24 11/08/2003, you 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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