Single process taking over?

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

We had a *similar* situation a few weeks ago. Upgrading DCC, SA and a couple
of other bits and pieces seemed to resolve the problem

Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of David Hooton
> Sent: 17 February 2004 02:48
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [MAILSCANNER] Single process taking over?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just upgraded to 4.26.8 and have noticed that on one of our
> linux boxes
> running Sendmail MailScanner seems to have spawned all the processes, but
> one process always uses 99-100% CPU and the box is killing itself
> to keep up
> regardless of weather mail is waiting to be processed or not.
>
> If I kill that individual MailScanner process the box begins to run
> normally.
>
> Has anyone else seen this?  It's a pretty big issue as this box is one of
> our core message routing boxes.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Hooton
>
>
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