Odd behaviour

[Mike Kercher]

I think you are correct

Mike
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list 
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:17 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Odd behaviour
> 
> > -----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
>