Single process taking over?

[Julian Field]

At 11:38 17/02/2004, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> > Behalf Of Julian Field
> > Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2004 8:36 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Single process taking over?
> >
> > Ah, a reproducible fault! I like those :-)
>
>I don't!!  :)
>
> > What does your MailScanner.conf look like? (just the interesting bits,
> > don't care what all the filenames of your reports are and stuff like
> > that).
>
>See below..
>
> > What virus scanner(s), SpamAssassin, etc?
>
>ClamAV, McAfee, Spamassassin 2.6.3, DCC, Razor
>
> > What is the last thing the runaway process logs before CPU hogging?
>
>Nothing abnormal, just the process starting and mail being processed, even
>in verbose logging, it just appears to be a normal process that won't let
>the other threads have any resources.  If I kill it, the other threads spawn
>and run as per normal.
>
> > Does the CPU hogging start the instant you start MailScanner, or the
> > instant the first child process runs, or when?
>
>As soon as mail begins to be processed.  If no mail is in the queue, not
>hogging, but the second any mail is in queue it's hogging.
>
>MailScanner.conf
>============================================
>Max Children = 4
>Queue Scan Interval = 1
>MTA = sendmail
>Max Unscanned Bytes Per Scan = 100000000
>Max Unsafe Bytes Per Scan = 50000000
>Max Unscanned Messages Per Scan = 15
>Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan = 15
>Virus Scanning = yes
>Virus Scanners = mcafee clamav
>Virus Scanner Timeout = 300
>Spam Checks = yes
>Spam List =
>Use SpamAssassin = yes
>Max SpamAssassin Size = 90000
>Deliver In Background = yes
>Delivery Method = batch

Do you reckon you could reproduce the problem on a box to which you could
give me login access? I suspect it's something very simple, but I have
never witnessed it here and it's apparently not a common problem.
--
Julian Field
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