Mailscanner eating my resources. I just can't fix it. Help!

[Robert Borkowski]

An update!

I've just found out something interesting.

5612  ?  S     0:02 perl -I/usr/local/mailscanner/lib
/usr/local/mailscanner/bi
5652  ?  S     0:01 perl -I/usr/local/mailscanner/lib
/usr/local/mailscanner/bi
5755  ?  S     0:01 perl -I/usr/local/mailscanner/lib
/usr/local/mailscanner/bi
5880  ?  S     0:01 perl -I/usr/local/mailscanner/lib
/usr/local/mailscanner/bi
6045  ?  R     3:06 perl -I/usr/local/mailscanner/lib
/usr/local/mailscanner/bi
11765  ?  S     0:00 perl -I/usr/local/mailscanner/lib
/usr/local/mailscanner/bi
31892  ?  S     0:07 perl -I/usr/local/mailscanner/lib
/usr/local/mailscanner/bi
root at canopus:/etc/mail# kill -TERM 6045

Now, I do this:
root at canopus:/etc/mail# kill -TERM 6045

And look at the log:
Jun 28 11:20:45 canopus MailScanner[5880]: New Batch: Found 6 messages
waiting
Jun 28 11:20:45 canopus MailScanner[5880]: New Batch: Scanning 2
messages, 80881 bytes
Jun 28 11:20:45 canopus MailScanner[5880]: Spam Checks: Starting
Jun 28 11:20:45 canopus MailScanner[5652]: SpamAssassin timed out and
was killed, consecutive failure 1 of 20
Jun 28 11:20:46 canopus MailScanner[5652]: Delete bayes lockfile for
6045
Jun 28 11:20:46 canopus MailScanner[5652]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Jun 28 11:20:47 canopus MailScanner[5612]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Jun 28 11:20:47 canopus MailScanner[5652]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
messages


Robert

::-----Original Message-----
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::[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Michele Neylon
::Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:54 AM
::To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
::Subject: Re: Mailscanner eating my resources. I just can't
::fix it. Help!
::
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::Which version are you running?
::What kind of resources does your setup have?
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