Too many children

[Paul Mc Auley]

Hi,

Using Debian Unstable, mailscanner 4.30.3, SpamAssassin 2.63 and Exim 4.32
with Max Children = 1, orphaned MailScanner processes seem to multiply
until the system runs out of memory, and in some cases harmless messages
are quarantined after this error:

MailScanner[7344]: Cannot parse
  /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/7268/1BUMKO-0001wc-Pr.header and , write-open
  /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/7268/1BUMKO-0001wc-Pr/msg-7344-11.txt: No
  such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/MIME/Body.pm line 414,
  <_GEN_11> line 72.

If I run MailScanner with Debug=yes, it manages fine, and that's how I've
worked around the problem.

Any thoughts as to what I might be doing wrong? I am also using clamav,
but disabling that did no good.

The general daily volume would be around 10k messages/day.
        Paul

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