Odd behaviour

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions
> [mailto:michele at BLACKNIGHTSOLUTIONS.COM]
> Envoyé : Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:10 AM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Re: Odd behaviour
> 
> 
> We had a similar problem recently. It seemed to right itself after a
> couple of hours though.
> Are the load averages high?
> > I've recently seen something that I cannot recall seeing 
> before. Seems
> > like MailScanner spots messages in mqueue.in but only scans a few of
> > them.
> >
> > Nov  5 15:47:24 MS01 MailScanner[17089]: New Batch: Found 
> 26 messages
> > waiting
> > Nov  5 15:47:24 MS01 MailScanner[17089]: New Batch: 
> Scanning 2 messages,
> > 1014386 bytes
> >
> > This happens repeatedly. The queues move but are seldom 
> totally emptied.
> >
> > Anyone else seen this?

Isn't it because MailScanner distributes the messages between its process (example, there are 20 messages waiting in queue, process 1 takes 12 and the other takes 8)?

Ugo