MailScanner processes die and don't restart

[Vasantha Narayanan]

Thanks.  I'll get the most recent version.  In the interim I'll use Joan
Bryan's script.

Vasantha



At 04:55 PM 6/20/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>I have done some work on fixing this in the most recent versions, as this
>was proving to be a problem with Postfix. If the child processes didn't die
>nicely, they weren't being re-spawned. They now re-spawn regardless of how
>they die. That should have fixed this problem.
>
>At 16:45 20/06/2003, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>We've 15 MailScanner processes running on our system.  When a MailScanner
>>process dies of old age, another one seems to restart almost
>>immediately.  But occasionally new ones don't seem to start after old one
>>dies.  And, even though I've "check_mailscanner" running in cron every 20
>>minutes, it has no effect, i.e, it does not start new processes because I
>>think the "check_mailscanner" script is not designed to start MailScanner
>>processes as long as some MailScanner processes are running.  As a result
>>what happens is, when such a situation arises, we've only about 3
>>MailScanner processes running and that is not enough to process all our
>>mail.  Hence a lot of mail gets held up in the incoming queue.  To solve
>>the problem, I've had to manually kill the remaining few MailScanner
>>processes and then restart it using "check_mailscanner".    But by then so
>>much mail is in the queue that it takes a long time for the mail to get
>>cleared resume normal mail processes.
>>
>>Is there a script that will keep track of how many processes are supposed
>>to be running and if it is short of that, it will start that many
>>more?   Is there some other solution to this problem?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Vasantha
>
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