Childprocesses increase and increase. (140MB -> 188MB and up)

[Stefan Sabolowitsch]

Hi List / NG.

I have following here:
WBEL (RHEL-AS) with latest patches / 1GB RAM / 1GHZ Athlon
and latest Version Mailscanner.

On the server max 4 mailscanners processes works.
I see, that increases to everyone of the individual Processe more and more.
(140MB -> 188MB and up).

Currently a process has 193480 kB. Those ones are already 755 MB! How far
is that still supposed to work?

Is that normal?

thanks for every aid / tip

Stefan


Info about Files and Connectios from this Childprocess:

"File" "Descriptor" "Type" "File" "size" "Inode" "Path"
Current dir Directory 4096 3572116 /var/spool/postfix/hold
Root dir Directory 4096 2 /
Program code Regular file 12700 1130768 /usr/bin/perl
Shared library Regular file 5524 2670735 /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so
Shared library Regular file 21436 2670791 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-
modules.cache
Shared library Regular file 90059
983048 /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo
Shared library Regular file 271344
1376784 /usr/local/lib/libclamav.so.1.0.4
Shared library Regular file 179496 1212456 /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3.3.2
Shared library Regular file 62128 1212429 /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.2
Shared library Regular file 69171
2703973 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-
multi/auto/Mail/ClamAV/ClamAV.so
Shared library Regular file 54636 3244072 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.so
Shared library Regular file 57561
934042 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-
multi/auto/Digest/SHA1/SHA1.so
Shared library Regular file 76492 524337 /lib/libresolv-2.3.2.so
Shared library Regular file 83619
1311361 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-
multi/auto/Net/DNS/DNS.so
Shared library Regular file 52584 1212474 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.4
Shared library Regular file 222464
3670084 /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0
Shared library Regular file 181413
1982529 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-
multi/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so
Shared library Regular file 51908 524325 /lib/libnss_files-2.3.2.so
Shared library Regular file 69835 4554814 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/auto/List/Util/Util.so
Shared library Regular file 114188
1032734 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-
multi/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so
Shared library Regular file 92441
2965599 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-
multi/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so
Shared library Regular file 42585 4866074 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/auto/MIME/Base64/Base64.so
Shared library Regular file 46816 2883599 /lib/tls/librtkaio-2.3.2.so
Shared library Regular file 56580
2392524 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-
multi/auto/Time/HiRes/HiRes.so
Shared library Regular file 51331 4702234 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/auto/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.so
Shared library Regular file 38161 4669500 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/auto/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.so
Shared library Regular file 199225
3850347 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-
multi/auto/DBI/DBI.so
Shared library Regular file 793716 524345 /lib/libdb-4.1.so
Shared library Regular file 152003 2720380 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/auto/DB_File/DB_File.so
Shared library Regular file 63573 3801148 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/auto/Socket/Socket.so
Shared library Regular file 61658 4620314 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so
Shared library Regular file 42977 4882465 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so
Shared library Regular file 47336 4177969 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.so
Shared library Regular file 56843 2342943 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/auto/IO/IO.so
Shared library Regular file 202346 1523753 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/auto/POSIX/POSIX.so
Shared library Regular file 32140784 3276814 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
Shared library Regular file 12548 524343 /lib/libutil-2.3.2.so
Shared library Regular file 23404 524303 /lib/libcrypt-2.3.2.so
Shared library Regular file 1571340 2883592 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so
Shared library Regular file 97420 2883596 /lib/tls/libpthread-0.60.so
Shared library Regular file 213376 2883594 /lib/tls/libm-2.3.2.so
Shared library Regular file 14888 524305 /lib/libdl-2.3.2.so
Shared library Regular file 91484 524309 /lib/libnsl-2.3.2.so
Shared library Regular file 2524937 3178565 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
Shared library Regular file 106424 524292 /lib/ld-2.3.2.so
4r Regular file 54478
4473367 /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomConfig.pm
5r Regular file 16382
4473327 /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/ConfigDefs.pl

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