processes {Scanned by HJMS}

[Willem Kuiters]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:16:46PM -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote:

> So you think the MailScanner processes are building up.
>
> Then specifying your platform and using options from ps other than just -A
> would be helpful. :-)  I assume it's Linux since the log mentions that.

I thought I mentioned Debian, but, yes, it's a PC with linux.

> That gives a much more useful display, at least on HPUX and Linux, don't
> have the rest available to test on.  On Linux, you may also get more info
> from 'ps auxww' or 'pstree -ap | less'.

Here's what 'pstree -ap' gives me three hours after startup:

init,1
  |-(MailScanner,230)
  |   `-(MailScanner,232)
  |-(MailScanner,673)
  |   `-(MailScanner,674)
  |-(MailScanner,1202)
  |   `-(MailScanner,1203)
  |-(MailScanner,1668)
  |   `-(MailScanner,1669)
  |-(MailScanner,1690)
  |   `-(MailScanner,1691)
......


> What do you have your "Restart Every" value set at in the MailScanner.conf
> file?

"Restart Every = 14400"

> What do you have "Max Children" set to?

"Max Children = 1"

Can this be a permissions problem?

Willem