processes {Scanned by HJMS}

[Willem Kuiters]

'lut MailScanner,

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:36:00PM +0200, Willem Kuiters wrote:
> 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 after a day:
 

init,1 
  |-(MailScanner,230)
  |   `-(MailScanner,2938)
  |-(MailScanner,673)
  |   `-(MailScanner,1994)
  |-(MailScanner,1202)
  |   `-(MailScanner,2195)
  |-(MailScanner,1668)
  |   `-(MailScanner,3138)
  |-(MailScanner,1690)
  |   `-(MailScanner,3128)
  |-(MailScanner,1983)
  |   `-(MailScanner,2882)
  |-(MailScanner,2162)
  |   `-(MailScanner,2163)
  |-(MailScanner,2561)
  |   `-(MailScanner,2562)
  |-(MailScanner,2699)
  |   `-(MailScanner,3075)
  |-(MailScanner,2835)
  |   `-(MailScanner,2836)
  |-(MailScanner,2951)
  |   `-(MailScanner,2952)
  |-(MailScanner,3035)
  |   `-(MailScanner,3036)
  |-(MailScanner,3066)
  |   `-(MailScanner,3067)
  |-(MailScanner,3115)
  |   `-(MailScanner,3116)
  |-(MailScanner,3157)
  |   `-(MailScanner,3158)
  |-(MailScanner,3432)
  |   `-(MailScanner,3433)
  |-(atd,251)

It is worrying me. I'm not a specialist. Is this normal?

Willem
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